Max Planck Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.