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.
MAX PLANCKI regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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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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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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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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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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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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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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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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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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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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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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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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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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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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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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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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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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