There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
MAX PLANCKWe 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.
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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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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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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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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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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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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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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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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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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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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Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.
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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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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 was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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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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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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Insight must precede application.
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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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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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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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