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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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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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 entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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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.
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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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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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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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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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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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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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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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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 assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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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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