Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
MAX PLANCKScience advances one funeral at a time.
More Max Planck Quotes
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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
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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.
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This is one of man’s oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature’s laws?
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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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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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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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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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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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