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.
MAX PLANCKThere can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.
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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 we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature’s laws?
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Thus, 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.
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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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A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.
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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 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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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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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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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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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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