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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.

Niels Bohr

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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
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
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
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
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
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

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