A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
MAX PLANCK
Experimenters are the shock troops 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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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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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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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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Insight must precede application.
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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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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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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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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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