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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

Max Planck

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Existence Force Origin Science Virtue
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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Black Myself Representation Research Search Solution
Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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Experiment 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
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Day Happiness heavy Lost Man
Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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Death Rival Truth
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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Errors Old Progress Science Theory
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
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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Oneself Reality Religion Science
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
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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Conscience High Law Science
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
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
Science advances one funeral at a time.
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Death Funeral One Liner Science Time
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
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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Consciousness Ego Human

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