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.
MAX PLANCKThe 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.
More Max Planck Quotes
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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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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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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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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Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’
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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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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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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The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists of all places, all times, all peoples, and all cultures.
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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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