Max Planck
Max Planck
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, FRSwas a German theoretical physicist whose work on quantum theory won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth23 April 1858
CityKiel, Germany
CountryGermany
numbers chemistry physics
Physical changes take place continuously, while chemical changes take place discontinuously. Physics deals chiefly with continuous varying quantities, while chemistry deals chiefly with whole numbers.
hard-work journey intellectual
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.
firsts belief conviction
The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.
jesus teaching all-time
Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.
views opponents way
A new scientific truth is usually not propagated in such a way that opponents become convinced and discard their previous views. No, the adversaries eventually die off, and the upcoming generation is familiarised anew with the truth.
enquiry foundation essentials
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
law expression causality
The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
art cutting impossible
It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.
knowledge science discovery
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.
success truth congratulations
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.
unlimited precision
It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
future science law
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.
god views goal
Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.
knowledge space trying
We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.