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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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