Max Planck
Quantum theory
Sayings by Max Planck
The development of a new idea is an act of creation.
The scientist must be a dreamer and a realist at the same time.
The history of science is a history of errors.
The human mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.
There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
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.
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul.
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.
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
Science advances one funeral at a time.
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarised with the ideas from the beginning.
Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
When you change your opinion, you are not a weakling. You are a scientist.
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.
The highest aim of physics is to find the one all-embracing law which governs all natural phenomena.
A scientist is a man who tries to understand the world by experiment, and a philosopher is a man who tries to understand the world by thought.
Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-ending crusade against skepticism and against dogmatism, against unbelief and against superstition, and as the motto for this crusade has always been, and always will be, 'On to God!'