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• Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature because the state of equal temperature distribution is more probable than a state of unequal temperature distribution.

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  Nature, Science, Body

  Max Planck (1915). “Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909”, p.74, Library of Alexandria

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• What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought

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  Mean, Science, Law

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• We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.

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  Struggle, Hard Work, Health

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

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

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  Science, Law, Realms

  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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• It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

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  Unlimited, Precision

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as a highly developed, almost fully matured science...Possibly in one or another nook there would perhaps be a dust particle or a small bubble to be examined and classified, but the system as a whole stood there fairly secured, and theoretical physics approached visibly that degree of perfection which, for example, geometry has had already for centuries.

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  Teacher, Science, Dust

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

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  Science, Tasks, Absolutes

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

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• 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.

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  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”

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• 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.

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  Science, People, Goal

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• Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

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  Science, Troops, Shock

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• If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is the most essential point of the whole calculation-E to be composed of a well-defined number of equal parts and use thereto the constant of nature h = 6.55 ×10-27 erg sec. This constant multiplied by the common frequency ? of the resonators gives us the energy element E in erg, and dividing E by E we get the number P of energy elements which must be divided over the N resonators.

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  Science, Numbers, Giving

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• Scientific 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.

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  Hands, Pockets, Would Be

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• An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

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  Change, Acceptance, Winning

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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.

  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”

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• The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.

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  Science, Light, Velocity

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

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• The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life of believers, originate the most intense motives for the most significant creative performance, not only in the field of arts and sciences but also in politics.

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  Art, Creative, Atheism

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• The spectral density of black body radiation ... represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be the highest form of research, I applied myself vigorously to its solution.

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  Science, Black, Density

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• The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.

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  Hard Work, Science, Journey

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• 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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• The worth of a new idea is invariably determined, not by the degree of its intuitiveness-which incidentally, is to a major extent a matter of experience and habit-but by the scope and accuracy of the individual laws to the discovery of which it eventually leads.

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  Science, Discovery, Law

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

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  Success, Failure, Science

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