The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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Insight must precede application.
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We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
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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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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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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
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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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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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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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