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Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be

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Niels Bohr
Age: 77 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 7
Died: 1962
Died: November 18
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Nuclear Physicist
Philosopher Of Science
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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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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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I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.
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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.
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No, no, you're not thinking you're just being logical.
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No paradox, no progress.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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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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