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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.

Niels Bohr

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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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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