No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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
-
-
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.
MAX PLANCK -
The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
MAX PLANCK -
An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.
MAX 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 PLANCK -
Science advances one funeral at a time.
MAX PLANCK -
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
MAX 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 PLANCK -
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
MAX PLANCK -
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.’
MAX PLANCK -
Insight must precede application.
MAX PLANCK -
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 -
What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
MAX PLANCK -
The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.
MAX 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 PLANCK -
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.
MAX PLANCK