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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Niels Bohr

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
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. 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
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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
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

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