A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
NIELS BOHRWhat 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.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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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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If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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