I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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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.
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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 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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In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.
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This 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?
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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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Insight must precede application.
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
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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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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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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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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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