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“It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.” quote by Max Planck — Download Open image

“It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.”

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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that…

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As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you…

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“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most…

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The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light.…

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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

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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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Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands…

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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…

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Science advances one funeral at a time.

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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it…

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

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It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with…

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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

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In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point…

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The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody…

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Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be…

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By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I…

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Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could…

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump…

Jason Schwartzman

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I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

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Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As…

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