Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
NIELS BOHRThere 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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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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You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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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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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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