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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.

Max Planck

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
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
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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Condition Ideas Imagination Man New Occasion
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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Death Hands Science Stop Terrible Work
Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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Experiment Imagination Knowledge Poetry
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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Expression Law Science
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
Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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Experiment Science
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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Experiment Measurement Nature Question Record Science
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
There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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Mindset Science
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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Conscious Fundamental Myself Regard
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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Happiness Himself Possession Rich Seek Truth
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
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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Artist Creation Ideas Imagination Intuition Science
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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Assumption Determination Essence Foundation

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