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No paradox, no progress.

Niels Bohr

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
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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Education Encouragement Inspirational Man Mistake
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
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
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
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
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
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time

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