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• It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
• The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it…
• The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
• The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not…
• We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with…
• New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who…
• As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can…
• Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some…
• The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also…
• I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about,…
• This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are…
• Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

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