Quote by Niels Bohr
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. – Niels Bohr

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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true. – Niels Bohr

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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. – Niels Bohr

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What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. – Norman Cousins

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A gun gives you the body, not the bird. – Henry David Thoreau

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By daily dying I have come to be. – Theodore Roethke

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