If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
NIELS BOHRIt 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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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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No paradox, no progress.
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No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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