I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
MAX PLANCKThe 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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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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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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The spectral density of black body radiation; represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be the highest form of research, I applied myself vigorously to its solution.
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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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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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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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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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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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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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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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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
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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 scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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Insight must precede application.
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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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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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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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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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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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