There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
MAX PLANCK
The pioneer scientist must have “a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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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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We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.
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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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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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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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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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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The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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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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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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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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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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