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Knowledge Quotes by Max Planck
- Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it…
- Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which…
- 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 to…
- We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which…
- 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…
- 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.
- Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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