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.
MAX PLANCKNo burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.
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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 entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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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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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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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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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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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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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 quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
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