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.
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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The spectral density of black body radiation; represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be the highest form of research, I applied myself vigorously to its solution.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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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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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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The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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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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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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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