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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.

Niels Bohr

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
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
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 an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.
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Creativity Hope Ideas Inspirational Work
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
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
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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Fake Science Truth Wisdom
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Book Myself Religious
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
Einstein, stop telling God what to do!
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Funny God One Liner
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

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