There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
MAX PLANCKA scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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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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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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Insight must precede application.
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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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We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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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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