Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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More Niels Bohr Quotes
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We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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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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The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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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.
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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