Max Planck Messages

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."