Author of quotes: Max Planck

In all areas of nature, a certain regularity dominates, independent of the existence of thinking humanity.

New scientific ideas never arise from a common body, no matter how organized it may be, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in a lonely thought and unites all his thoughts in one point, which at the moment is his whole world ...

Understanding must precede application.

Experiment is the only cognitive tool at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

Scientific discoveries and scientific knowledge were achieved only by those who went in pursuit of them without any practical purpose.

The scientist needs artistic and creative imagination.

Modern physics teaches us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part separately ... We must focus our attention on the whole and on the relationship between the parts. The same applies to our intellectual life. It is impossible to draw a clear line between science, religion and art. The whole is never equal to simply the sum of its various parts.

Every step forward in cognition puts us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

In all my research, I have never encountered matter. For me, the term "matter" means a lump of energy that is shaped by an intelligent spirit.

Science cannot solve the main mystery of nature. And this is because, ultimately, we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying to solve.

I think consciousness is fundamental. I see matter as a derivative of consciousness. We cannot go beyond consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we consider to exist, postulates consciousness.

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the clearest science, the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research on atoms the following: matter as such does not exist. All matter arises and exists only by the force that causes the particle of the atom into vibration and holds this smallest solar system of the atom together. We must assume that behind this force there is a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.

To achieve success one should set objectives a bit higher than those that currently can be achieved.

Really something that can be measured.