“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”

—  Max Planck

Interview in 'The Observer' (25 January 1931), p.17, column 3

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German theoretical physicist 1858–1947

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