An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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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?
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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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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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.
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Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.
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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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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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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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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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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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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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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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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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