What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
MAX PLANCKNo burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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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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Insight must precede application.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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 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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
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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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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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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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 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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