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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

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, 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
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
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
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
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Crazy Enough Science Technology Theory True Yourself
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom

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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