SaturdayMar 14, 2026
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There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
There are trivial truths and great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
We all agree that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough.
There are some things that are so serious that you have to laugh at them.
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
Prediction is extremely difficult. Especially about the future.
A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?' he asks. 'No,' replies the colleague, 'but I've been told that it works even if you don't believe in it.'
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
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