Quotes of Max Planck - somelinesforyou

“ A new 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ A new 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry. ”

- Max Planck

“ An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ In allem Streben und Forschen suche ich hinter dem Geheimnis des Lichtstrahls ehrfürchtig das Geheimnis des göttlichen Geistes. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future. ”

- Max Planck

“ A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning… ”

- Max Planck

“ Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with. ”

- Max Planck

“ Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. ”

- Max Planck

“ Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck

“ Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. ”

- Max Planck

“ 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. ”

- Max Planck
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