Max Planck Quotes

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

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Science advances funeral by funeral

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

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

Insight must precede application.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.

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

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