The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
MAX PLANCKThus, 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.
More Max Planck Quotes
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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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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.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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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 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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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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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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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, 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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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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