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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.

Max Planck

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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Artist Creation Imagination Need 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
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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Conscience High Law Science
The pioneer scientist must have “a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”
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Artist Creation Ideas Imagination Intuition Science
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.
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Health Life Maintain Relative Rest Science Struggle
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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Conscious Fundamental Myself Regard
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
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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Harmony Human Independence Law Man Nature Old Order Subject
Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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Death Rival Truth
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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Constitution Goal Human Intelligence Light Possible Quick
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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Independent Invention Law Nature Order Reality World
Insight must precede application.
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Action Application Knowledge One Liner Wisdom
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
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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Art Equality Impossible Religion Science Simplicity
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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Consciousness Ego Human
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

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