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.
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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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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.
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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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The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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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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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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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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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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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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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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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Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.
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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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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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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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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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Insight must precede application.
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Scientific 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.
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