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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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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.

~ Max Planck

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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 trying to solve.

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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, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

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

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