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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.

Niels Bohr

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Logical Thinking Yourself
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
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Agency Independent Ordinary Reality
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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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
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
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

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