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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.

Max Planck

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
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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Law Religion Science
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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Conscious Fundamental Myself Regard
We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.
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Beyond Position Space
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
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
Insight must precede application.
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Action Application Knowledge One Liner Wisdom
Science advances one funeral at a time.
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Death Funeral One Liner Science Time
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Existence Force Origin Science Virtue
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
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
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
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
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

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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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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