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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.

Niels Bohr

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way

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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