Quotes of Max Planck. #quotes #motivationalquotes

There is no matter as such, mind is a matrix of all matter. Science advances one funeral at a time. 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. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. An experiment is a question which science poses to nature and a measurement is the recording of nature's answer. 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. Insight must precede application. Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination. It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls. I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness. Anybody who has been seriously engaged in 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. A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge. Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being. The pioneer scientist must have a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination. The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific inquiry. The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination. The entire worlds we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of nature. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. I have always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worthwhile task of science. An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents, what does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings, out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal. Whence come I and whither go I? That is a great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts. 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. Experimenters are the shock troops of science. The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality. Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. We cannot rest and sit down lest we rest and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute. There can never be any real opposition between religion and science. The one is the complement of the other. No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. There is a real world independent of our senses. The laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order. 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. Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore close to science. It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision. 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. Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time. A new truth always has to contend with many difficulties. It would have been discovered much sooner if it were not so. What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher standpoint, quite simple and harmonious.