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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.

Max Planck

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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Consciousness Ego Human
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
Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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Experiment Science
It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Limitation Possible Prediction
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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Constitution Goal Human Intelligence Light Possible Quick
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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Assumption Existence Future Law Physical Right
I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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Noble Science Search Worth
It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.
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Art Equality Impossible Religion Science Simplicity
What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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Appearance Harmony Quite Simplicity
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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Fragment Nature Vast World
Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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Experiment Imagination Knowledge Poetry
Science advances funeral by funeral.
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Death Funeral One Liner Science
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
There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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Mindset Science
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Existence Force Origin Science Virtue

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