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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Niels Bohr

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad

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