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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.

Max Planck

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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Happiness Himself Possession Rich Seek Truth
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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Expression Law Science
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
Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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Death Rival Truth
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
Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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Face Knowledge Live Mystery Ourselves
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
Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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Experiment Science
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
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Existence Force Origin Science Virtue
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
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
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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Culture Goal People Place Respect Time
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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Engagement Kind Science Serious Temple Word Work Writing
There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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Mindset Science
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

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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