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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

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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning 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
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
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
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 best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon

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