Science advances one funeral at a time.
MAX PLANCKInsight must precede application.
More Max Planck Quotes
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Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.
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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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Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
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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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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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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.
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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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I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
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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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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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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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