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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.

Niels Bohr

Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
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
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
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
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
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

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