It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
MAX PLANCKScience 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.
More Max Planck Quotes
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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of 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 assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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Insight must precede application.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists of all places, all times, all peoples, and all cultures.
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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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The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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Science 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.
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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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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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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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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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