The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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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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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A 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.
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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 can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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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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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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 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.
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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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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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Insight must precede application.
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We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.
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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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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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Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.
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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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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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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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