A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
MAX PLANCKInsight must precede application.
More Max Planck Quotes
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In 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.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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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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The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
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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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What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.
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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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We 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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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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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There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.
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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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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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Those scientists who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
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This is one of man’s oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature’s laws?
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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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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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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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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
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We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.
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Insight must precede application.
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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
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