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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Niels Bohr

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
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
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality 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
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
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Fake Science Truth Wisdom

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