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 PLANCKAn experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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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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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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The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.
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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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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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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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.
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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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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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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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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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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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