The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists of all places, all times, all peoples, and all cultures.
MAX PLANCKAll matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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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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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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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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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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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All 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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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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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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Experimenters are the shock troops 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 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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Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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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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There is no matter as such—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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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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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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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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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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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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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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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