It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
MAX PLANCKThe 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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Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
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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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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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 can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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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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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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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 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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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.
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Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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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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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.
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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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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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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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