It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.
MAX PLANCKIt was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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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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Insight must precede application.
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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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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 entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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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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Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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