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

Niels Bohr

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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
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
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity

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