Nog een paar van "Max". Ben trouwens wel benieuwd hoe hij er in deze tijd tegenaan zou hebben gekeken. n.b. Geen zorgen Paul, ik ben het niet in alles met "Max" eens (met het meeste overigens wel)
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. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.
Where Is Science Going? (1932)
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.
Where Is Science Going? (1932)
In the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.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. Where is Science Going? (1932)
Both Religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.Religion and Natural Science (Lecture Given 1937) Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, trans. F. Gaynor (New York, 1949), pp. 184
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle 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 mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.
Das Wesen der Materie [The Nature of Matter], speech at Florence, Italy (1944) (from Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Abt. Va, Rep. 11 Planck, Nr. 1797)
Zoals master Yoda schreef (apocrief):
"Rhetorical expressions a truth do not make"
Paul