An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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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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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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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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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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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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
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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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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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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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The 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.
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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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