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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

Niels Bohr

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.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake 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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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