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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

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
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
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
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
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
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
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
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
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad

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