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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
