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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

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
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
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
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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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
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
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
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

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