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Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.

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Niels Bohr
Age: 77 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 7
Died: 1962
Died: November 18
Association Football Player
Chemist
Nuclear Physicist
Philosopher Of Science
Physicist
University Teacher
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Niels Henrik David Bohr
Nicholas Baker
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Truth and clarity are complementary.
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It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.
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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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Some things are so serious, they can only be joked about.
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If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.
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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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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
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We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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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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The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
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You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
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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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Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
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Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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