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 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.
MAX PLANCKIt was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
MAX PLANCKWe 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 PLANCKA scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
MAX PLANCKScientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.
MAX PLANCKThe quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
MAX PLANCKThose scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
MAX PLANCKI had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
MAX PLANCKThis 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 PLANCKThere 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.
MAX PLANCKTruth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
MAX PLANCKThe pioneer scientist must have “a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”
MAX PLANCKWhat seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
MAX PLANCKI regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
MAX PLANCKExperiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
MAX PLANCKThe assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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