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.
MAX PLANCKThe 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.
MAX PLANCKScience 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.
MAX PLANCKTruth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
MAX PLANCKAll 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.
MAX PLANCKIt is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
MAX PLANCKAll matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
MAX PLANCKThe pioneer scientist must have “a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”
MAX PLANCKReligion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
MAX PLANCKExperimenters are the shock troops of science.
MAX PLANCKThe quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
MAX PLANCKI had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
MAX PLANCKAn 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.
MAX PLANCKScience advances funeral by funeral.
MAX PLANCKEgo is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
MAX PLANCKThere is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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.
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