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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

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science

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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