An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
MAX PLANCKAll 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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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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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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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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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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Insight must precede application.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.
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The spectral density of black body radiation; represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be the highest form of research, I applied myself vigorously to its solution.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.
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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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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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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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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