"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."

Knowledge, Purpose, Discovery, Pursuit

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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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"There are no new inventions, only new discoveries."

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"Ignorance is the darkest depths."

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"Curiosity is a daring faith."

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"Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years."

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"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."

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"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."

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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Reading the timeless stories strengthen my spirit in times of suffering."

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"Life is all about discovery."

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Explore more quotes by Max Planck

"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter."

Virtue

"We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future."

Future

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

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"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."

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"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

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"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out."

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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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"Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness."

Consciousness

"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 trying to solve."

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"Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'"

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