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
A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge. — 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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls. — 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 tell you… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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