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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.

Niels Bohr

Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
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 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
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
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
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
There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Appearance Hope Mad
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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