Max Planck Quotes

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• Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to…
• The spectral density of black body radiation ... represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be…
• If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is the most essential…
• All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind.…
• A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a…
• Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science…
• Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that…
• An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die…
• We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist…
• It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
• Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
• No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
• Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
• Science advances one funeral at a time.
• An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
• There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
• There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person…
• Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
• A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and…
• Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science…

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