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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

Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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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Creation Force Science Value World
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
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
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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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
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Expression Foundation Greatness Light Ourselves Science
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
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

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