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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More Max Planck Quotes
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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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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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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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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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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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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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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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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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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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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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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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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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Insight must precede application.
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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 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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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
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It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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 assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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