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

Niels Bohr

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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 searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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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
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad

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