Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
MAX PLANCKA scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.
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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.
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The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
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This is one of man’s oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature’s laws?
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
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The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.
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We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.
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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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