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Science Quotes by Max Planck
- The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich…
- We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so…
- As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as…
- Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
- Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter…
- 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…
- Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
- I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
- Science advances funeral by funeral
- Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
- 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…
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