We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.
MAX PLANCKThis 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?
More Max Planck Quotes
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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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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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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Insight must precede application.
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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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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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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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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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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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A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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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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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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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