The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
MAX PLANCKThere can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
More Max Planck Quotes
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Insight must precede application.
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There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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 is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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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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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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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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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 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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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