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.
MAX PLANCKScientific 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.
More Max Planck Quotes
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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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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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Science advances funeral by funeral.
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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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Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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It 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.
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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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Insight must precede application.
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Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
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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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There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
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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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An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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