Science advances funeral by funeral.
MAX PLANCKWe 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.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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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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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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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 assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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