I Regard Consciousness As Fundamental. I Regard

As A Man Who Has Devoted His Whole Life To The Most Clear Headed Science, To The Study Of Matter, I Can Tell You As A Result Of My Research About Atoms This Much: There Is No Matter As Such. All Matter Originates And Exists Only By Virtue Of A Force Which Brings The Particle Of An Atom To Vibration And Holds This Most Minute Solar System Of The Atom Together. We Must Assume Behind This Force The Existence Of A Conscious And Intelligent Mind. This Mind Is The Matrix Of All Matter.

An Experiment Is A Question Which Science Poses To Nature And A Measurement Is The Recording Of Nature's Answer.

New Scientific Ideas Never Spring From A Communal Body, However Organized, But Rather From The Head Of An Individually Inspired Researcher Who Struggles With His Problems In Lonely Thought And Unites All His Thought On One Single Point Which Is His Whole World For The Moment.

Modern Physics Has Taught Us That The Nature Of Any System Cannot Be Discovered By Dividing It Into Its Component Parts And Studying Each Part By Itself... We Must Keep Our Attention Fixed On The Whole And On The Interconnection Between The Parts. The Same Is True Of Our Intellectual Life. 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.

When I Began My Physical Studies [in Munich In 1874] And Sought Advice From My Venerable Teacher Philipp Von Jolly...he Portrayed To Me Physics As A Highly Developed, Almost Fully Matured Science...possibly In One Or Another Nook There Would Perhaps Be A Dust Particle Or A Small Bubble To Be Examined And Classified, But The System As A Whole Stood There Fairly Secured, And Theoretical Physics Approached Visibly That Degree Of Perfection Which, For Example, Geometry Has Had Already For Centuries.