Max Planck Quotes, Thoughts and images

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Insight must precede application.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

Science advances funeral by funeral

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.

Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.