A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
MAX PLANCKExperimenters are the shock troops of science.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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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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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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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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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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Insight must precede application.
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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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Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’
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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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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 never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.
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