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 PLANCKA new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.
More Max Planck Quotes
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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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Insight must precede application.
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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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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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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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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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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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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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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