Max Planck
Max Planck
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, FRSwas a German theoretical physicist whose work on quantum theory won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth23 April 1858
CityKiel, Germany
CountryGermany
Max Planck quotes about
convincing eventually familiar generation grows opponents rather science scientific triumph truth
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
science troops shock
Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
science tasks absolutes
I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
science black density
The spectral density of black body radiation ... represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be the highest form of research, I applied myself vigorously to its solution.
science numbers giving
If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is the most essential point of the whole calculation-E to be composed of a well-defined number of equal parts and use thereto the constant of nature h = 6.55 ×10-27 erg sec. This constant multiplied by the common frequency ? of the resonators gives us the energy element E in erg, and dividing E by E we get the number P of energy elements which must be divided over the N resonators.
knowledge science discovery
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
future science law
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
real science-and-religion science-religion
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
science men ideas
The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.
science funeral mathematics
Science advances one funeral at a time.
nature science answers
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
science imagination creative
The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.