Quote by Niels Bohr
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how N

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. – Niels Bohr

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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. – Niels Bohr

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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true. – Niels Bohr

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The attraction of variety, contrast, is always invigorating. Nature does not for long allow a sameness of beauty to prevail. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the Ne

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Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements. – Christy Turlington

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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. – Phillips Brooks

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. – Vincent Van Gogh

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He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I dont think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else. – Shel Silverstein

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