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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

In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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Experience Nature Possible Purpose Reality
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
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
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
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 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
The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.
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Believe Beyond Character Doubt Knowledge Science Theory
We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Genius Ideas Mad
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
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
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 things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
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
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
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom

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