Max Planck on consciousness
Max Planck51 quotes“Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.”
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Insight must precede application.
Max PlanckMax Planck 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.’
Max PlanckMax Planck 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.
Max PlanckMax Planck Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
Max PlanckMax Planck A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.
Max PlanckMax Planck 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.
Max PlanckMax Planck 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.
Max PlanckMax Planck Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
Max PlanckMax Planck We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.
Max PlanckMax Planck Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
Max PlanckMax Planck 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.
Max PlanckMax Planck 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.
Max PlanckMax Planck 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?
Max PlanckMax Planck Science advances one funeral at a time.
Max PlanckMax Planck Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
Max PlanckMax Planck It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Michael BeckwithMichael Beckwith Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for God-Consciousness.
Michael BeckwithMichael Beckwith They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided.
Adam ParfreyAdam Parfrey The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.
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