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— Max Born"It is a fascinating fact that father and son have given the most striking evidence for the apparently contradictory properties of the electron: the father proving its character as a particle, the son its character as a wave... Thomson was extremely proud of his son's success and tried to assimilate the new results into his old convictions."
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There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.
— Gautama Buddha
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If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
— Emile M. Cioran
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