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

Niels Bohr

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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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
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, 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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth 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
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
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

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