Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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Insight must precede application.
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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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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.
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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 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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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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.
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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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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.
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An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
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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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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.
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