I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
MAX PLANCKAll matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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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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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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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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The spectral density of black body radiation; represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be the highest form of research, I applied myself vigorously to its solution.
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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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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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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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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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The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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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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A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.
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