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• Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

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  Ego, Consciousness, Humans

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• Insight must precede application.

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  Insight, Application

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• 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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  Creativity, Ideas, Vivid Imagination

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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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  Intelligent, Curves, Light

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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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  Nature, Science, Answers

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.58, Open Road Media

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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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  Acquisition, Scientist, Attainment

  Max Planck (1936). “The Philosophy of Physics”, New York : W. W. Norton, Incorporated

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• Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.

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  God, Science, Views

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against superstition, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and will always be, 'On to God.'

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  Fighting, Rallying Cry, Battle

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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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  Real, Independent, Men

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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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  Errors, Progress, Enough Time

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• Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

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  Science, Ideas, Scientist

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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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  Nature, Science, Men

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.

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  Lonely, Spring, Struggle

  Max Planck's address on the 25th anniversary of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft (January 1936) as quoted in Kristie Macrakis "Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany", 1993.

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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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  Nature, Science, World

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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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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  Difficulty, Has Beens, Ifs

  Max Planck (1993). “A Survey of Physical Theory”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.

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  Knowledge, Mean, Science

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• Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

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  Knowledge, Science, Mind

  Max Planck (1932). “Where is Science Going?”

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• All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.

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  Atoms, Matter, Virtue

  "Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them". Book by Clifford Pickover, 2008.

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• Science advances funeral by funeral

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  Funeral, Economics

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• The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

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  Science, Foundation, Essentials

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• 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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  Knowledge, Science, Space

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers.

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  Science, Numbers, Chemistry

  Max Planck (2013). “Treatise on Thermodynamics”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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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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  Art, Cutting, Impossible

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• 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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  Struggle, Hard Work, Health

  Max Planck (1933). “Where is science going?”

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• Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

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  Jesus, Teaching, All Time

  "The Dilemmas of an Upright Man : Max Planck As Spokesman for German Science". Book by John L. Heilbron, p. 67, 1986.

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