6 December 2004 - to be puny

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Emerson said that to be great is to be misunderstood, which must be a great saying because I can’t figure out how it possibly makes sense. Niels Bohr the physicist said that the opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth, so to be puny is to be understood perfectly. Quantum mechanics is easier than I thought!

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