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 PLANCKThe quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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Science 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.
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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Insight must precede application.
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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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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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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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