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.
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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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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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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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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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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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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It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
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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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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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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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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There 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.
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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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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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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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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We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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