I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
MAX PLANCKIt is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
More Max Planck Quotes
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Insight must precede application.
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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.’
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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 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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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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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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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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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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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human 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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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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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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