1. “What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.”
2. “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.”
3. “An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.”
4. “Insight must precede application.”
5. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
6. “The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.”
7. “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.”
8. “Science advances one funeral at a time.”
9. “Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.”
10. “We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.”
11. “No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.”
12. “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.”
13. “The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea”
14. “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.”
15. “Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.”
