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.
MAX PLANCKThe 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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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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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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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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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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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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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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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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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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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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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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