If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
NIELS BOHRIsolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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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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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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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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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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No paradox, no progress.
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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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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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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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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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