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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

If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
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
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
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science

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