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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

Niels Bohr

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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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
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
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
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
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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