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.
MAX PLANCKAn 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.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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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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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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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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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 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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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.
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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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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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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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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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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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Insight must precede application.
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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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There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.
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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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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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