We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.
MAX PLANCKAll matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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This is one of man’s oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature’s laws?
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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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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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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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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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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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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Insight must precede application.
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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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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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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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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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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