Max Planck

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“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 (1858-1947)

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“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 (1858-1947)

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“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 (1858-1947)

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“Science advances one funeral at a time.”

― Max Planck (1858-1947)

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

― Max Planck (1858-1947)

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“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

― Max Planck (1858-1947)

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“Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.”

― Max Planck (1858-1947)

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“Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp.”

― Max Planck (1858-1947)

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“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 (1858-1947)

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“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 (1858-1947)

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“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.”

― Max Planck (1858-1947)

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“The laws of Physics have no consideration for the human senses; they depend on the facts, and not upon the obviousness of the facts.”

― Max Planck (1858-1947)

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“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 new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

― Max Planck (1858-1947)