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Experimenters are the shocktroops of science.

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The ether, this child of sorrow of classical mechanics...

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The roots of exact science feed in the soil of human life.

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We cannot hope to find what is assumed not to be existent.

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Natural science wants man to learn, religion wants him to act.

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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

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No science can rest its foundation on the dependability of single human individuals.

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Self-determination is given to us by our consciousness and is not limited by any causal law.

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Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.

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Conscientiousness and truth are as necessary in research in pure science as in practical life.

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The measure of the value of a new hypothesis in physics is not its obviousness but its utility.

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

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Since Galileo's time, physics has achieved its greatest success by rejecting all teleological methods.

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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

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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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The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

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The chief law of physics, the pinnacle of the whole system is, in my opinion, the principle of least action.

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Religion belongs to that realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to 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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In Physics... as in every other science, common sense alone is not supreme; there must also be a place for Reason.

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Every measurement first acquires its meaning for physical science through the significance which a theory gives it.

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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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Science is not contemplative repose amidst knowledge already gained, but is indefatigable work and an ever progressive development.

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If one wishes to obtain a definite answer from Nature one must attack the question from a more general and less selfish point of view.

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If we did not have faith but could solve puzzle in life by an application of the human reason, what an unbearable burden life would be.

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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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It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

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A process which in no manner can be completely reversed I called a "natural" one. The term for it in universal use today is: "Irreversible."

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In all cases, the quantum hypothesis has given rise to the idea, that in Nature, changes occur which are not continuous, but of an explosive nature.

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The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.

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