What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
MAX PLANCKWhat seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
MAX PLANCKIt was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
MAX PLANCKExperimenters are the shock troops of science.
MAX PLANCKThus, 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.
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 PLANCKThe assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
MAX PLANCKThose scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
MAX PLANCKScience advances one funeral at a time.
MAX PLANCKA new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.
MAX PLANCKWe 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.
MAX PLANCKReligion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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 PLANCKScience progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.
MAX PLANCKThe 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.
MAX PLANCKTruth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
MAX PLANCKAll matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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