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It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

Niels Bohr

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
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
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
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
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
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon

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