Paradoxes and what else there is to say about ambiguities. A small collection of quotes.

Top Ten

1.

„How wonderful that we have met with a paradox.

Now we have some hope of making progress “

Niels Bohr

2.

„Whoever faces the paradox exposes himself to reality “ 

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

3.

„I'd rather be a paradox man than a man with prejudices “

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

4.

„Anyone who does not come across a paradox when thinking has stopped thinking too early “

Hans-Jürgen Quadbeck-Seeger

5.

„The path of paradox is the path to truth. To test reality, you have to let it dance on the tightrope “

Oscar Wilde

6.

„The paradox turns normality on its head “ 

Volkmar Frank

7.

„The thinker without paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre patron “

Søren Kierkegaard

8.

"Paradoxes are like sleight of hand in the universe,

that remind us of this,

that reality is often stranger than our imagination “

Brian Greene

9.

„Many paradoxes are just unfamiliar self-evident truths “

Emmanuel Wertheimer

10.

„The spirit of contradiction and the desire for paradox is in all of us “

Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe