I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
MAX PLANCKWhence 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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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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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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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 advances funeral by funeral.
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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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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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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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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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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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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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