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Werner Heisenberg.
Physics and Beyond.
Allen & Unwin. 1971

Translated from the German Der Teil und das Ganze by Arnold J. Pomerans

In Chapter 8, "Atomic Physcics and Pragmatism (1929)":

p102. And so both our formulations contained a large grain of truth, and Paul and I could console ourselves with an oft-repeated dictum of Niels Bohr: "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."