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

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
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
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
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself
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
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
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
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
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
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it’s exact opposite is also true.
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Deep Science Truth Wisdom
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
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
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Deep Reality Science

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