The pioneer scientist must have “a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”
MAX PLANCKThere 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.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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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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It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.
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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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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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Whence 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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Insight must precede application.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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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Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.
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