Science advances funeral by funeral.
MAX PLANCKEvery advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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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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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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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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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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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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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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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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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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