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Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .

Niels Bohr

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom

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