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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

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand

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