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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

Max Planck

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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Answer Born Death Greatness Let Go Science
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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Fragment Nature Vast World
I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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Noble Science Search Worth
Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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Face Knowledge Live Mystery Ourselves
What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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Appearance Harmony Quite Simplicity
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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Death Generation Light Science Success Truth
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
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Creativity Death Important Innovation Rival Science Win
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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Law Religion Science
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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Harmony Human Independence Law Man Nature Old Order Subject
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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Independent Invention Law Nature Order Reality World
The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.
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Condition Ideas Imagination Man New Occasion
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’
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Engagement Kind Science Serious Temple Word Work Writing
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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Conscious Fundamental Myself Regard
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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Happiness Himself Possession Rich Seek Truth
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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Beyond Position Space
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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Expression Law Science

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