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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.

Niels Bohr

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
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
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity

When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.

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