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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.

Niels Bohr

Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
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
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
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
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
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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong

All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.

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