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

Niels Bohr

Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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