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.
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.
nature world vastness
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
unlimited precision
It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.
science numbers giving
If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is the most essential point of the whole calculation-E to be composed of a well-defined number of equal parts and use thereto the constant of nature h = 6.55 ×10-27 erg sec. This constant multiplied by the common frequency ? of the resonators gives us the energy element E in erg, and dividing E by E we get the number P of energy elements which must be divided over the N resonators.
science black density
The spectral density of black body radiation ... represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be the highest form of research, I applied myself vigorously to its solution.
opponents triumph dies
Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out,
science tasks absolutes
I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.