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Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

Niels Bohr

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
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.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.
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Philosophy Truth Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

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