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

Niels Bohr

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
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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

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