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If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.

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
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Joke Oneself Serious
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
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
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking 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
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
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
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.
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Deep Mad Recognition Truth
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 sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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Measure Property Science
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

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