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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

Max Planck

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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Artist Creation Imagination Need Science
Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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Experiment Science
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
Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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Death Rival Truth
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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Death Generation Light Science Success Truth
It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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Accident Age Deep Greatness Religious Soul Thinking
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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Existence Force Intelligence Mindset Origin Virtue
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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Engagement Kind Science Serious Temple Word Work Writing
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
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Mystery Nature Ourselves Science Try
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
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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Harmony Human Independence Law Man Nature Old Order Subject
Insight must precede application.
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Action Application Knowledge One Liner Wisdom
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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Culture Goal People Place Respect Time
Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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Entertainment Ideas Rich Science Thinking
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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Betrayal Failure Goal Light Pursuit Success
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

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