No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
MAX PLANCKA 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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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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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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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
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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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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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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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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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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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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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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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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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Insight must precede application.
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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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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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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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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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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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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 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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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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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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