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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

Niels Bohr

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
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
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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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
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
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual

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