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

Niels Bohr

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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

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