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.
NIELS BOHRAddress to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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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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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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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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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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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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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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One must always do what one really cannot.
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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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