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.
MAX PLANCKIn 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.
More Max Planck Quotes
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Insight must precede application.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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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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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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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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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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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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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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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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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