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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Niels Bohr

One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time

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