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.
MAX PLANCKAnybody 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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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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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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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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 entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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Insight must precede application.
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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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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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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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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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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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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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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