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.
MAX PLANCKA 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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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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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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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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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The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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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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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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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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Insight must precede application.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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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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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
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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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