Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never relaxing crusade against skepticism and against dogmatism, against unbelief… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The spectral density of black body radiation ... represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability.… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“Before an experiment can be performed, it must be planned—the question to nature must be formulated before being posed. Before the result… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature. — Max Planck Copy Share
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that… — Max Planck Copy Share
It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls. — Max Planck Copy Share
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you… — Max Planck Copy Share
“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most… — Max Planck Copy Share
The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light.… — Max Planck Copy Share
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer. — Max Planck Copy Share
Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands… — Max Planck Copy Share
We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life… — Max Planck Copy Share
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective… — Max Planck Copy Share
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry. — Max Planck Copy Share
Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor… — Max Planck Copy Share
Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being. — Max Planck Copy Share
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