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
intelligent men mind
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.
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.
acquisition scientist attainment
A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
mind atoms matter
There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.
science imagination creative
The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.
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.
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.
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.