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.
MAX PLANCKThus, 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.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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The pioneer scientist must have “a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.”
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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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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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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.
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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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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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Experimenters are the shock troops 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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