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“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together…. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Spirit. This Spirit is the matrix of all matter.”

Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist

Das Wesen der Materie [The Nature of Matter], a 1944 speech in Florence, Italy, Archiv zur Geschichte der Max&#8209; Planck&#8209; Gesellschaft, Abt. Va, Rep. 11 Planck, Nr. 1797; the German original is as quoted in The Spontaneous Healing of Belief https://archive.org/stream/GreggBradenTheSpontaneousHealingOfBelief/Gregg%20Braden/Gregg%20Braden%20-%20The%20Spontaneous%20Healing%20Of%20Belief#page/n1 (2008) by Gregg Braden, p. 212; Braden mistranslates intelligenten Geist as "intelligent Mind", which is an obvious tautology.

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

Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist

Max Müller, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood
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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) German theoretical physicist

Source: Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

“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 (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist

The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics (1931)

“The first and most important quality of all scientific ways of thinking must be the clear distinction between the outer object of observation and the subjective nature of the observer.”

Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist

Where is science going? The Universe in the light of modern physics. (1932)

“Science advances one funeral at a time.”

Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”

Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist

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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.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature, for in the final analysis we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
Source: Where is Science Going? (1932)

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

Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist

„A modern fizika leginkább azon régi dogma igazolásával nyűgöz le minket, mely arra tanít, hogy léteznek az érzékelésünkön kívüli világok és olyan problémák, amelyek megoldásában nagyobb szerepük van ezen új világoknak, mint az összes korábbi tapasztalaton alapuló tudásunknak.”

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Max Planck, 1931: The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics. London: Allen & Unwin Ltd.

„Az igazság sosem diadalmaskodik, csak kihalnak az ellenfelei.”

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Max Planck (1858–1947) német fizikus

„A Tudomány sosem képes a Természet végső rejtélyeit megoldani, mivel a rejtélynek mi magunk is részei vagyunk.”

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Max Planck (1858–1947) német fizikus