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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

Niels Bohr

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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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
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
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
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
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
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
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand

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