Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
A new scientific truth is usually not propagated in such a way that opponents become convinced and discard their previous views. No,… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about,… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The worth of a new idea is invariably determined, not by the degree of its intuitiveness-which incidentally, is to a major extent… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity… — 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. Every serious… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination." — Max Planck Copy Share Image
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the… — 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
An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings… — 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
