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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 Bohr

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
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
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
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

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.

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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.

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