Max Planck Quotes

This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with t...

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but r...

[I do not believe] in a personal God, let alone a Christian God.

The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has on...

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Natu...

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, b...

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entranc...

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches...

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of ...

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we o...

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

The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of a...

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in purs...

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that ...

New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head ...