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.
MAX PLANCKScientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
More Max Planck Quotes
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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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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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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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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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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to 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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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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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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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The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.
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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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