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The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

Niels Bohr

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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
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
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
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
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Expression Inspirational Science Thinking

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