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Max Planck
German
Scientist
About the author
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
Max Planck,
German
Scientist
#Man
#Burden
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,
German
Scientist
#Science
#Question
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,
German
Scientist
#Right
#Now
#Will
#Future
#Laws
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,
German
Scientist
#Science
#Trying
#Nature
#Mystery
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,
German
Scientist
#Success
#Truth
#Happiness
#Possession
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
Max Planck,
German
Scientist
#Consciousness
#Ego
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is 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,
German
Scientist
#Work
#Science
#Faith
#Temple
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,
German
Scientist
#Winning
#Opponents
#Innovation
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,
German
Scientist
#Mind
#Virtue
#Force
#Existence
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,
German
Scientist
#Light
#Truth
#Opponents
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,
German
Scientist
#Light
#Truth
#Opponents
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,
German
Scientist
#Purpose
#Knowledge
#Pursuit
#Discovery