It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.
Interpretation
Deep truths often possess dualities where their opposites are equally profound.
Niels Bohr's quote suggests that truths are often complex and multifaceted, indicating that understanding one aspect of a truth can lead to the realization that its opposite also holds validity. This reflects the idea that knowledge is not simply binary but rather exists within a spectrum where opposing concepts can coexist as meaningful and profound.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about the nature of truth.
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn't yet understood the first thing about it.
I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.
The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.
If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.
The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.
We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.
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