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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Niels Bohr

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
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Difficult Future Time
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
A person who wasn’t outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn’t understand what had been said.
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Funny Person Science Understand
Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.
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Science Support
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
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Democracy Politics Secret Weapon
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
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
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Greatness Human Satisfaction Science
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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End Laughter Ourselves
No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
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Funny Logic Thinking Yourself
Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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Funny Joke Science Serious
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
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
It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
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Deep Truth Wisdom
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk

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