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In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Science advances funeral by funeral

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

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.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

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

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

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

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

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out,

[I do not believe] in a personal God, let alone a Christian God.

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.

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

What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.

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

There is no matter as such - mind is the matrix of all matter.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

Science advances one funeral at a time.