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.
MAX PLANCKReligion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
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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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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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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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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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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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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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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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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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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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