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

Niels Bohr

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
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
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself 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

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