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.
MAX PLANCK
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Max Planck on death
Max Planck51 quotes“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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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.
Max PlanckMax Planck 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?
Max PlanckMax Planck Science advances one funeral at a time.
Max PlanckMax Planck 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.
Max PlanckMax Planck It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
Max PlanckMax Planck No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
Max PlanckMax Planck 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.
Max PlanckMax Planck 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.
Max PlanckMax Planck 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.
Max PlanckMax Planck 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.
Max PlanckMax Planck The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
Max PlanckMax Planck It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
Max PlanckMax Planck There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
Max PlanckMax Planck 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.
Max PlanckMax Planck There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
Max PlanckMax Planck I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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