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

Niels Bohr

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
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
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry 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
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
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

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