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New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggl...more

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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, an...more

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

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The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists ...more

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

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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are try...more

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Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor t...more

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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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This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe w...more