"The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and……" — 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 his science by the addition of a new idea."
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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 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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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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Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry…
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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