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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.

Niels Bohr

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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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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 sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
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 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
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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
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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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself

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