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When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

Niels Bohr

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity

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