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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.

Niels Bohr

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
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
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
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity

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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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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