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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.

Max Planck

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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Difficult Discover Truth
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
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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Beyond Position Space
Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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Experiment Imagination Knowledge Poetry
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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Creativity Death Important Innovation Rival Science Win
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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Assumption Existence Future Law Physical Right
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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Mystery Nature Ourselves Science Try
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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Death Generation Light Science Success Truth
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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Consciousness Ego Human
Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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Death Rival Truth
Science advances funeral by funeral.
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Death Funeral One Liner Science
I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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Noble Science Search Worth
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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Health Life Maintain Relative Rest Science Struggle
Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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Face Knowledge Live Mystery Ourselves
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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Harmony Human Independence Law Man Nature Old Order Subject
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Existence Force Origin Science Virtue

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