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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
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
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
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
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
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Change Children Oneself Time

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