Max Planck Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Max Planck:

A new 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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/max-planck-quotes/#d8794e1e

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/max-planck-quotes/#bba67c80

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/max-planck-quotes/#eb1ca5b0

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.
~Max Planck


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/max-planck-quotes/#56d7bce0

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/max-planck-quotes/#122bae1e

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/max-planck-quotes/#5074c43b

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
~Max Planck


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/max-planck-quotes/#e0f3914f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/max-planck-quotes/#21a7dfe5

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/max-planck-quotes/#8eb5cb4c

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
~Max Planck


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/max-planck-quotes/#aeafff6d

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/max-planck-quotes/#d8fe3515

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/max-planck-quotes/#e0d03a3e

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