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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.

Max Planck

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
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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Difficult Discover Truth
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
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
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
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
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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Consciousness Ego Human
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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Conscious Existence Fundamental Myself Regard Spiritual Talk
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Existence Force Origin Science Virtue
A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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Fresh Happiness Knowledge Science
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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Conscious Fundamental Myself Regard
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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Errors Old Progress Science Theory
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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Oneself Reality Religion Science
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
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 experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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Experiment Measurement Nature Question Record Science

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