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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.

Niels Bohr

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
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
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
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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself

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