An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
MAX PLANCKAn experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
MAX PLANCKScientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
MAX PLANCKEvery advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
MAX PLANCKAn indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.
MAX PLANCKAll matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
MAX PLANCKThe 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.
MAX PLANCKI had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
MAX PLANCKAll matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
MAX PLANCKThus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.
MAX PLANCKThe quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
MAX PLANCKExperiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
MAX PLANCKThe assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
MAX PLANCKScientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.
MAX PLANCKWhat seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
MAX PLANCKThose scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
MAX PLANCKTruth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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