"We cannot rest and sit down lest we……" — Max Planck
"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 it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute."
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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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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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I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
— Giorgio Armani
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
— Dave Barry
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
— Bruce Barton
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
— Theodor Adorno
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