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A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.

Niels Bohr

You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
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
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
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
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
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

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