Neils Bohr on 'complementarity"

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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth. 
Without paradoxes there is no hope of progress         - Niels Bohr

. . . .from a great little Robert Anton Wilson website, with matching koans. . . .

http://members.cox.net/chuck418/y_book_little_triggers.htm
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From: "Monte Davis" <monte.davis at verizon.net>
> Lawrence Bryan :
> > Is he  [Bohr]  the one who said, paraphrasing, the opposite of a great
> truth is also a great truth? 
>  
> Usually quoted as "The opposite of a trivial truth is false. The opposite of
> a great truth may be another great truth," but sometimes in a stronger
> version -- that the *identifying characteristic* of a great truth was that
> its opposite was also...
> 


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