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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.

Niels Bohr

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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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
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
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
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
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
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
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
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
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
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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

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