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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

Niels Bohr

No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
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Development Nature Ourselves Talk
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
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
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

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

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