The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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Insight must precede application.
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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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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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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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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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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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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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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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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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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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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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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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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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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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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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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There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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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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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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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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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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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