Truth and clarity are complementary.
NIELS BOHRThe opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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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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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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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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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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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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