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Quote by Niels Bohr
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a t

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. – Niels Bohr

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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. – Niels Bohr

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Nature
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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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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – George Eliot

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The great man is he who does not lose his childs-heart. – Mencius

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I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I cant do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If Im going to do something, I go all the way. – Tom Cruise

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. – Soren Kierkegaard

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War makes thieves and peace hangs them. – George Herbert

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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. – Arnold Bennett

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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. – Charles Caleb Colton

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