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.
MAX PLANCKThe spectral density of black body radiation; represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be the highest form of research, I applied myself vigorously to its solution.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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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 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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The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
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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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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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Insight must precede application.
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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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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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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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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
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A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.
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