The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
MAX PLANCKThe scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
MAX PLANCKIt is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.
MAX PLANCKAll matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
MAX PLANCKIn all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.
MAX PLANCKI 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.
MAX PLANCKReligion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
MAX PLANCKI regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
MAX PLANCKA scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
MAX PLANCKInsight must precede application.
MAX PLANCKEvery advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
MAX PLANCKThe entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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.
MAX PLANCKIt is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
MAX PLANCKThere is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
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.
MAX PLANCKWe 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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