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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.

Niels Bohr

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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand

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