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… — 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
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry. — 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 constant endeavor… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being. — Max Planck Copy Share Image
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