I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
MAX PLANCKI had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
MAX PLANCKAn experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
MAX PLANCKThere is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
MAX PLANCKThe 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 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 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 PLANCKEgo is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
MAX PLANCKTruth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
MAX PLANCKWhat seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
MAX PLANCKThe quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
MAX PLANCKScience advances one funeral at a time.
MAX PLANCKNo burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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 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 PLANCKI regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
MAX PLANCKEvery advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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