Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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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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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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The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists of all places, all times, all peoples, and all cultures.
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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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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 advances one funeral at a time.
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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
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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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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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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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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 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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