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.
MAX PLANCKEgo is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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The 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.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.
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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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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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All 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.
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Insight must precede application.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.
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