Quotes
by
Famous Scientists
Max Planck
"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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"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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"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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“No, 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.”
Niels Bohr
"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real."
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"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress."
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"I must confess that I was not able to find a way to explain the atomistic character of nature. My opinion is that … one has to find a possibility to avoid the continuum (together with space and time) altogether. But I have not the slightest idea what kind of elementary concepts could be used in such a theory."
"Anyone who becomes seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that there is a spirit manifest in the laws of the universe, a spirit vastly superior than man."
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
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"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
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"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
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"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
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“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
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"Reality is an illusion albeit a very persistent one."
Isaac Newton
"Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent."
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"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
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"Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth."
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"I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity."
Richard P. Feynman
"I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
Nikola Tesla
"It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects."
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The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Wilful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea."
Erwin Schrödinger
“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
