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Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.

Niels Bohr

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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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
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
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science 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
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
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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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If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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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
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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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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If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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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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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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