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
insight application
Insight must precede application.
science funeral mathematics
Science advances one funeral at a time.
science men ideas
The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.
intelligent research matter
In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.
science imagination creative
The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
nature science answers
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
happiness men inner-peace
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
men order law
This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?
death truth growing-up
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.
wise wisdom faces
Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
fundamentals matter derivatives
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
fundamentals matter derivatives
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
nature science trying
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.
inspirational science intelligent
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.