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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.

Max Planck

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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Death Generation Light Science Success Truth
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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Existence Force Intelligence Mindset Origin Virtue
Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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Face Knowledge Live Mystery Ourselves
The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.
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Condition Ideas Imagination Man New Occasion
There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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Mindset Science
It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Limitation Possible Prediction
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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Law Religion Science
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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Answer Born Death Greatness Let Go Science
The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.
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Conscience High Law Science
I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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Noble Science Search Worth
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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Oneself Reality Religion Science
We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.
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Health Life Maintain Relative Rest Science Struggle
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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Experiment Measurement Nature Question Record Science
The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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Artist Creation Imagination Need Science
Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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Death Rival Truth
Science advances one funeral at a time.
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Death Funeral One Liner Science Time

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