An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
MAX PLANCKIt is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
More Max Planck Quotes
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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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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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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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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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 advances funeral by funeral.
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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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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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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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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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