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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Niels Bohr

No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
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
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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.
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Science Understand Yourself
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

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