Insight must precede application.
MAX PLANCKScientific 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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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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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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The pioneer scientist must have “a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”
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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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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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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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