Unsourced variant: The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. | As quoted in Max Delbrück, Mind from Matter: An Essay on Evolutionary Epistemology, (1986) p. 167. It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth
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