Max Planck

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

— 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

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

— 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

“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds…

— 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

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

— Max Planck

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

— 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

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

— Max Planck

Science advances one funeral at a time.

— 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

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

— 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

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

— 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

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

— 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

“Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never relaxing crusade against skepticism and against dogmatism, against unbelief…

— Max Planck

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

— 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

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

— 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

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

— Max Planck

What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that…

— Max Planck