Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. — Max Planck

Experimenters are the shock troops of science. — Max Planck

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. — Max Planck

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 Planck

I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science. — Max Planck

Science advances one funeral at a time. — Max Planck

Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp. — Max Planck

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science. — Max Planck

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas. — Max Planck

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer. — Max Planck

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. — Max Planck

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors. — Max Planck

We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute. — Max Planck

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

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.’ — Max Planck

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination. — Max Planck

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. — Max Planck

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge. — Max Planck

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being. — Max Planck

There is no matter as such–mind is the matrix of all matter. — Max Planck

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. — Max Planck

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. — Max Planck

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature. — Max Planck

Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal. — Max Planck

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

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. — Max Planck

This is one of man’s oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature’s laws? — Max Planck