Max Planck

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

— Max Planck

I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

— Max Planck

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

— Max Planck

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

— Max Planck

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

— Max Planck

We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with…

— Max Planck

“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

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

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so…

— Max Planck

Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly…

— Max Planck

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of…

— Max Planck

Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put…

— Max Planck

Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward…

— Max Planck

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

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can…

— Max Planck

Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability.…

— Max Planck

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

The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity…

— Max Planck

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious…

— Max Planck

Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some…

— Max Planck

The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law…

— Max Planck

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious…

— Max Planck

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will…

— Max Planck

In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is…

— Max Planck

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose…

— Max Planck

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the…

— Max Planck

We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind…

— Max Planck

A new scientific truth is usually not propagated in such a way that opponents become convinced and discard their previous views. No,…

— Max Planck

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about,…

— Max Planck

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

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the…

— Max Planck

“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

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

— Max Planck

Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select…

— Max Planck

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the…

— Max Planck

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

An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose…

— Max Planck

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings…

— Max Planck