A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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.
More Max Planck Quotes
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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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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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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 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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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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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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
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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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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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The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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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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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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Insight must precede application.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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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