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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.

Max Planck

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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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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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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Energy Intelligence Research Science Spirit
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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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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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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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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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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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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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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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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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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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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