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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

Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
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 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
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand

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