I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
MAX PLANCKThe scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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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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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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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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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.
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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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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.
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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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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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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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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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The pioneer scientist must have “a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”
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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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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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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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 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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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
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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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