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

Niels Bohr

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
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
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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