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«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.»
«The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness»
Author: Niels Bohr
(Physicist)
| About:
Democracy,
Government,
Weapons
| Keywords:
dictatorship, openness, secrecy
«There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.»
«If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.»
«The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.»
«One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd»
Author: Niels Bohr
(Physicist)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
contrast, distinction, obviously, opposites, recognized, sorts, trivialities, triviality
«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.»
Author: Niels Bohr
(Physicist)
«It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.»
Author: Niels Bohr
(Physicist)
«Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.»
Author: Niels Bohr
(Physicist)
«Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question»
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