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“Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.”

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

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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…

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