"Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted……" — 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 must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation."
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Max Planck
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60 Quotes by Max Planck
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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it…
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we…
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This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that…
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Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Confine yourself to the present.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
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