There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
NIELS BOHROh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
More Niels Bohr Quotes
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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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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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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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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One must always do what one really cannot.
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It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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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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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Nothing exists until it is measured.
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No paradox, no progress.
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