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 BOHRIt 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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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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Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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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.
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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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A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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