Max Planck Quotes

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• The worth of a new idea is invariably determined, not by the degree of its intuitiveness-which incidentally, is to a major extent a matter of…
• Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from…
• The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
• Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which…
• Science advances funeral by funeral
• An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even…
• Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
• The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
• What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of…
• The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
• 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 before any science…
• Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.
• 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…
• Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out,
• The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."
• It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various…
• What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
• There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
• All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force...
• I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.

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