All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
MAX PLANCKIn 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.
More Max Planck Quotes
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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 assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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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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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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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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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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