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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

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time

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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