Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
MAX PLANCKAn indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.
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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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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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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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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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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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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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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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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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 goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists of all places, all times, all peoples, and all cultures.
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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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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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It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.
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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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