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.
Max PlanckThere is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.
Max PlanckIn all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.
Max PlanckA scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.
Max PlanckModern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself... We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.
Max Planck