There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
MAX PLANCKEvery advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
More Max Planck Quotes
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
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The pioneer scientist must have “a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”
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Insight must precede application.
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We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
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An 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.
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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.
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All 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.
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The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.
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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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.
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The spectral density of black body radiation; represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be the highest form of research, I applied myself vigorously to its solution.
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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.
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