Max Planck Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

  Max Planck

  Faith, Science, Temples

  Where is Science Going? epilogue (1932)
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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.

  Max Planck

  Inspirational, Science, Intelligent

  "Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them". Book by Clifford Pickover, April 16, 2008.

• 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.

  Max Planck

  Science, Fundamentals, Matter

• A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

  Max Planck

  Death, Truth, Growing Up

  Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)

• As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.

  Max Planck

  Science, Intelligent, Men

  "'Das Wesen der Materie' ('The Nature of Matter')". Speech in Florence, Italy,, 1944.

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

  Max Planck

  Nature, Science, Answers

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.58, Open Road Media

• 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.

  Max Planck

  Nature, Science, Trying

  Max Planck (1933). “Where is science going?”

• Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

  Max Planck

  Knowledge, Science, Mind

  Max Planck (1932). “Where is Science Going?”

• 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.

  Max Planck

  Future, Science, Law

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

• Science advances one funeral at a time.

  Max Planck

  Science, Funeral, Mathematics

• It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

  Max Planck

  Success, Truth, Congratulations

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

• The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

  Max Planck

  Science, Men, Ideas

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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

  Max Planck

  Science, Foundation, Essentials

• I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

  Max Planck

  Science, Tasks, Absolutes

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.25, Open Road Media

• The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

  Max Planck

  Science, Imagination, Creative

• Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

  Max Planck

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

  Max Planck (1932). “Where is Science Going?”

• New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.

  Max Planck

  Lonely, Spring, Struggle

  Max Planck's address on the 25th anniversary of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft (January 1936) as quoted in Kristie Macrakis "Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany", 1993.

• Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.

  Max Planck

  Knowledge, Mean, Science

• Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

  Max Planck

  Science, Troops, Shock

• The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.

  Max Planck

  Science, Expression, Law

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

• This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?

  Max Planck

  Nature, Science, Men

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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

  Max Planck

  Science, Ideas, Scientist

• Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.

  Max Planck

  God, Science, Views

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.97, Open Road Media

• The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists of all places, all times, all peoples, and all cultures.

  Max Planck

  Science, People, Goal

• Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.

  Max Planck

  Taken, Knowledge, Responsibility

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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