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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

Max Planck

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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Assumption Determination Essence Foundation
Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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Face Knowledge Live Mystery Ourselves
I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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Noble Science Search Worth
The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
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Expression Law Science
A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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Fresh Happiness Knowledge Science
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Day Happiness heavy Lost Man
There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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Mindset Science
Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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Entertainment Ideas Rich Science Thinking
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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Oneself Reality Religion Science
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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Discover Knowledge Practice Pursuit Science View
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
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Conscious Existence Fundamental Myself Regard Spiritual Talk
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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Consciousness Ego Human
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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Mystery Nature Ourselves Science Try
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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Happiness Himself Possession Rich Seek Truth
What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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Appearance Harmony Quite Simplicity
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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Fragment Nature Vast World

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