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
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.
creativity ideas vivid-imagination
The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."
difficulty ifs has-beens
A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.
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.
answers unfathomable
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.
nature world vastness
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
knowledge mind world
Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
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.
ego consciousness humans
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
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.
unlimited precision
It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
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.
lonely spring struggle
New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.
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.