It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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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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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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Insight must precede application.
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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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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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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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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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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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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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.’
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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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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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