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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

Niels Bohr

If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
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
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
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
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

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