Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
MAX PLANCKIt is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
More Max Planck Quotes
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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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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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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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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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Insight must precede application.
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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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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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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.
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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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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 one funeral at a time.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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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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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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