Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
MAX PLANCKExperiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
MAX PLANCKScience 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.
MAX PLANCKExperimenters are the shock troops of science.
MAX PLANCKThe scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
MAX PLANCKA new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.
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 PLANCKI regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
MAX PLANCKTruth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
MAX PLANCKA scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
MAX PLANCKScientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
MAX PLANCKEvery advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
MAX PLANCKA 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.
MAX PLANCKAn 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.
MAX PLANCKAll 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.
MAX PLANCKWe 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.
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.
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