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No paradox, no progress.

Niels Bohr

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
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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
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
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious

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