"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter……" — Max Planck
"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."
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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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The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he…
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he…
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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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New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired…
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As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter,…
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Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told…
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The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details,…
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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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Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry…
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