Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
MAX PLANCKThere can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
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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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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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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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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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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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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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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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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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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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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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