 | Gerard Radnitzky, Karl Raimund Popper - Philosophy - 1987 - 500 pages
...boomerang is a tool which, if it is thrown and does not come back, is not a boomerang (von Kutschera). A great truth is a truth, whose opposite is also a great truth (Niels Bohr). Time is what happens if nothing else happens (Feynman). Such definitions are irreparably... | |
 | Theresa R. Richardson - Social Science - 1989 - 290 pages
...and employment, since they are not so by their talents. (Voltaire, quoted in Farmers Almanac, 1987.) A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth. (Thomas Mann, Essay on Freud, quoted in Jerome Kagen, The Nature of the Child, New York: Basic Books,... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. Appended to his entry in Who's Who Thomas Mann 1875-1955 37 A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth. Essay on Freud 1937 38 I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics... | |
 | David R. Fideler - Philosophy - 1995 - 502 pages
...observer as "participator" in the creation of reality, and asserts (in the words of Niels Bohr) that "A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth," the faith in reason as the only valid key to reality has been severely shaken. Yet, the criticism of... | |
 | David Yang Gao - Mathematics - 2000 - 476 pages
...the means the Tao employs. All things are born from Something and Something from Nothing. — Lao Chi A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth. —Niels Bohr It is a splendid feeling to realize the unity of a complex of phenomena that by physical... | |
 | Yudi Pawitan - Business & Economics - 2001 - 552 pages
...the value 95% has some evidential attachment to the observed interval. Bayesians versus frequentists A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth. - Thomas Mann (1875-1955) In Bayesian computations one starts by explicitly postulating that a parameter... | |
 | William Hudson O'Hanlon, Bill Ohanlon - Psychology - 2003 - 184 pages
...opposite possibility Think about unspoken possibilities or opposites. Physicist Neils Bohr proclaimed: A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth. Whenever the client suggests a single-minded truth, remind yourself and the client, if appropriate,... | |
 | Ian Jordaan - Business & Economics - 2005 - 696 pages
...robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. Richard Dawkins A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth. Thomas Mann 5.1 Conflict Up to now, we have considered decision-making in cases where we are the 'protagonist',... | |
 | Gino Segrè - Science - 2007 - 340 pages
...reached a point of such complexity, Bohr might lighten the mood by repeating one of his favorite sayings, "A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth," egging his young followers to think boldly. The physicists congregating in Copenhagen that week decided... | |
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth. 