Max-planck Quote by Philipp von Jolly

“In 1875, when young Max Planck announced his interest in physics, the chairman of his physics department suggested he study something more exciting. Physics,…

— Bruce Rosenblum

“The great German physicist Max Planck had been advised by his lecturer, the marvellously named Philipp von Jolly, not to pursue the study of…

— J.M.R. Higgs

“When Max Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of quantum theory, he said, “Looking back over the long and labyrinthine path…

— Brennan Manning

“Max Planck, surveying his own career in his Scientific Autobiography, sadly remarked that “a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“we think that all the forces of nature become united at something like the Planck energy, a million billion times larger than the highest…

— Steven Weinberg

“In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.…

— Albert Einstein

“As physicist Max Planck once observed, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but…

— Adam M. Grant

“physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our Universe.”

— Max Tegmark

“After receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918, Max Planck went on tour across Germany. Wherever he was invited, he delivered the same…

— Rolf Dobelli

[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919…

— Albert Einstein

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at…

— Abraham Pais

“By the time I began my study of physics in the early 1970s, the idea of unifying gravity with the other forces was as…

— Lee Smolin