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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

Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time
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
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
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time

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