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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

Max Planck

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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Answer Born Death Greatness Let Go Science
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
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Day Happiness heavy Lost Man
Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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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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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
Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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Experiment Imagination Knowledge Poetry
I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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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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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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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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