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href="/wiki/File:Max_Planck_1933.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Max_Planck_1933.jpg/220px-Max_Planck_1933.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="273" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Max_Planck_1933.jpg/330px-Max_Planck_1933.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Max_Planck_1933.jpg/440px-Max_Planck_1933.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2216" data-file-height="2752" /></a><figcaption>I regard <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> as fundamental. I regard <a href="/wiki/Matter" title="Matter">matter</a> as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness.</figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck" class="extiw" title="w:Max Planck">Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/23_April" class="mw-redirect" title="23 April">23 April</a> <a href="/wiki/1858" class="mw-disambig" title="1858">1858</a> – <a href="/wiki/4_October" class="mw-redirect" title="4 October">4 October</a> <a href="/wiki/1947" class="mw-disambig" title="1947">1947</a>) was a German <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/theoretical_physicist" class="extiw" title="w:theoretical physicist">theoretical physicist</a> whose discovery of energy <a href="/wiki/Quantum" class="mw-redirect" title="Quantum">quanta</a> won him the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics" class="extiw" title="w:Nobel Prize in Physics">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> in 1918. </p><p>Planck made many substantial contributions to theoretical physics, but his fame as a physicist rests primarily on his role as the originator of <a href="/wiki/Quantum_mechanics" title="Quantum mechanics">quantum theory</a> and one of the founders of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/modern_physics" class="extiw" title="w:modern physics">modern physics</a>, which revolutionized understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. He is known for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant" class="extiw" title="w:Planck constant">Planck constant</a>, which is of foundational importance for quantum physics, and which he used to derive a set of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_measurement" class="extiw" title="w:Unit of measurement">units</a>, today called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units" class="extiw" title="w:Planck units">Planck units</a>, expressed only in terms of fundamental <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/physical_constant" class="extiw" title="w:physical constant">physical constants</a>. </p> <dl><dd><b>See also</b> by Planck: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Origin_and_Development_of_the_Quantum_Theory" title="The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory">The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory</a></i></dd></dl> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Planck&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Max_Planck_Nobel_1918.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Max_Planck_Nobel_1918.jpg/220px-Max_Planck_Nobel_1918.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="312" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Max_Planck_Nobel_1918.jpg/330px-Max_Planck_Nobel_1918.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Max_Planck_Nobel_1918.jpg/440px-Max_Planck_Nobel_1918.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1656" data-file-height="2348" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">Science</a> cannot solve the ultimate <a href="/wiki/Mystery" title="Mystery">mystery</a> of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a>. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> and therefore part of the <a href="/wiki/Mystery" title="Mystery">mystery</a> that we are trying to solve.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Max_Planck_(1858-1947).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Max_Planck_%281858-1947%29.jpg/220px-Max_Planck_%281858-1947%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="309" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Max_Planck_%281858-1947%29.jpg/330px-Max_Planck_%281858-1947%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Max_Planck_%281858-1947%29.jpg/440px-Max_Planck_%281858-1947%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1810" data-file-height="2542" /></a><figcaption>A new <a href="/wiki/Scientific" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific">scientific</a> <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">light</a>, but rather because its opponents eventually <a href="/wiki/Die" class="mw-redirect" title="Die">die</a>, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dr._Max_Planck.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Dr._Max_Planck.jpg/220px-Dr._Max_Planck.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Dr._Max_Planck.jpg/330px-Dr._Max_Planck.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Dr._Max_Planck.jpg/440px-Dr._Max_Planck.jpg 2x" data-file-width="912" data-file-height="647" /></a><figcaption>New <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">scientific</a> <a href="/wiki/Ideas" title="Ideas">ideas</a> never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a> and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> for the moment.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Farsighted <a href="/wiki/Theologians" title="Theologians">theologians</a> are now working to mine the <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">eternal</a> metal from the <a href="/wiki/Teachings" class="mw-redirect" title="Teachings">teachings</a> of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> and to forge it for <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a>.</b> <ul><li>From <i>Planck to Study</i> (2 December 1913), (Autog. I/383, SPK); as quoted in <i>The Dilemmas of an Upright Man : Max Planck As Spokesman for German Science</i> (1986) by <a href="/wiki/J._L._Heilbron" class="mw-redirect" title="J. L. Heilbron">J. L. Heilbron</a>, p. 67</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We have no right to assume that any physical <a href="/wiki/Laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Laws">laws</a> exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a>. <ul><li><i>The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics</i> (1931)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I regard <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> 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.</b> <ul><li>Interview in 'The Observer' (25 January 1931), p.17, column 3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I also knew the formula that expresses the energy distribution in the normal spectrum. A theoretical interpretation therefore had to be found at any cost, no matter how high. It was clear to me that classical physics could offer no solution to this problem, and would have meant that all energy would eventually transfer from matter to radiation. ...<b>This approach was opened to me by maintaining the two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/laws_of_thermodynamics" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:laws of thermodynamics">laws of thermodynamics</a>. The two laws, it seems to me, must be upheld under all circumstances. For the rest, I was ready to sacrifice every one of my previous convictions about physical laws. ...[One] finds that the continuous loss of energy into radiation can be prevented by assuming that energy is forced at the outset to remain together in certain quanta. This was purely a formal assumption and I really did not give it much thought except that no matter what the cost, I must bring about a positive result.</b> <ul><li>Letter to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Wood" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Robert W. Wood">Robert W. Wood</a> (October 7, 1931) in Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, Microfilm 66, 5, as cited in <a href="/wiki/Thomas_S._Kuhn" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas S. Kuhn">Thomas S. Kuhn</a>, <i>Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894–1912</i> (1978) pp. 132, 288. Translation of the entire letter, which is follow above is in Armin Hermann, <i>Frühgeschiche der Quantentheorie (1899–1913)</i> Mosbach/Baden: Physik Verlag (1969), transl. Claude W. Nash, p. 23 of the translation; and also in M. S. Longair,Theoretical Concepts in Physics(Cambridge and NewYork: Cambridge University Press, 1984), ch. 6–12, p. 222. All as quoted/cited by Clayton A. Gearhart, "Planck, the Quantum, and the Historians", Physics in Perspective, 4 (2002) 170-215.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Anybody who has been seriously engaged in <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">scientific</a> <a href="/wiki/Work" title="Work">work</a> of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: <i>Ye must have <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a></i>. It is a quality which the <a href="/wiki/Scientist" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientist">scientist</a> cannot dispense with. <ul><li><i>Where Is Science Going? The Universe in the light of modern physics.</i> (1932), Epilogue, p. 214</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is not the possession of <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. <ul><li><i>Where Is Science Going? The Universe in the light of modern physics.</i> (1932), <i>Is the external world real?</i>, p. 83</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Again and again the imaginary plan on which one attempts to build up that order breaks down and then we must try another. This imaginative vision and faith in the ultimate success are indispensable. The pure rationalist has no place here. <ul><li><i>Where Is Science Going? The Universe in the light of modern physics.</i> (1932), Epilogue, p. 215</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Science cannot solve the ultimate <a href="/wiki/Mystery" title="Mystery">mystery</a> of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a>. 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.</b> <ul><li><i>Where is Science Going? The Universe in the light of modern physics.</i> (1932), Epilogue, p. 217</li> <li>Variants:</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature, for in the final analysis we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying to solve.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But science sets out confidently on the endeavor finally to know the <i>thing</i> in itself, and even though we realize that this ideal goal can never be completely reached, still we struggle on towards it untiringly. And we know that at every step of the way each effort will be richly rewarded. <ul><li><i>Where is science going? The Universe in the light of modern physics.</i> (1932), <i>Causation and free will: the problem stated</i>, p. 139f.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In other words, the fundamental principles and indispensable postulates of every genuinely productive science are not based on pure logic but rather on the metaphysical hypothesis — which no rules of logic can refute — that there exists an outer world which is entirely independent of ourselves. It is only through the immediate dictate of our <a href="/wiki/Awareness" title="Awareness">consciousness</a> that we know that this world exists. And that consciousness may to a certain degree be called a special sense. <ul><li><i>Where is science going? The Universe in the light of modern physics.</i> (1932), <i>Causation and free will: the problem stated</i>, p. 138f.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The first and most important quality of all scientific ways of thinking must be the clear distinction between the outer object of observation and the subjective nature of the observer. <ul><li><i>Where is science going? The Universe in the light of modern physics.</i> (1932), <i>Causation and free will: the problem stated</i>, p. 139</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>New scientific <a href="/wiki/Ideas" title="Ideas">ideas</a> never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a> and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> for the moment. <ul><li>Address on the 25th anniversary of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft (January 1936), as quoted in <i>Surviving the Swastika : Scientific Research in Nazi Germany</i> (1993) <small> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-507010-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-507010-0">ISBN 0-19-507010-0 </a> </small></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Als Physiker, der sein ganzes Leben der nüchternen Wissenschaft, der Erforschung der Materie widmete, bin ich sicher von dem Verdacht frei, für einen Schwarmgeist gehalten zu werden. Und so sage ich nach meinen Erforschungen des Atoms dieses: Es gibt keine Materie an sich. Alle Materie entsteht und besteht nur durch eine Kraft, welche die Atomteilchen in Schwingung bringt und sie zum winzigsten Sonnensystem des Alls zusammenhält. Da es im ganzen Weltall aber weder eine intelligente Kraft noch eine ewige Kraft gibt—es ist der Menschheit nicht gelungen, das heißersehnte Perpetuum mobile zu erfinden—so müssen wir hinter dieser Kraft einen bewußten intelligenten Geist annehmen. Dieser Geist ist der Urgrund aller Materie.</i></li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li><b>As a physicist who has devoted his whole life to rational science, to the study of matter, I think I can safely claim to be above any suspicion of irrational exuberance. Having said that, I would like to observe that my research on the atom has shown me that there is no such thing as matter in itself.</b> What we perceive as matter is merely the manifestation of a force that causes the subatomic particles to oscillate and holds them together in the tiniest solar system of the universe. <b>Since there is in the whole universe neither an intelligent force nor an eternal force (mankind, for all its yearnings, has yet to succeed in inventing a perpetual motion machine), we must assume that this force that is active within the atom comes from a conscious and intelligent mind. That mind is the ultimate source of matter.</b></li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li><span id="The_Nature_of_Matter"></span><i>Das Wesen der Materie</i> [<i>The Nature of Matter</i>], a 1944 speech in Florence, Italy, Archiv zur Geschichte der Max‑Planck‑Gesellschaft, Abt. Va, Rep. 11 Planck, Nr. 1797; the German original is as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/GreggBradenTheSpontaneousHealingOfBelief/Gregg%20Braden/Gregg%20Braden%20-%20The%20Spontaneous%20Healing%20Of%20Belief#page/n1"><i>The Spontaneous Healing of Belief</i></a> (2008) by Gregg Braden, p. 212. "Geist", here translated as "mind" can also be translated as "spirit".</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>Variant translations:</li> <li>As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles 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.</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>Eine neue wissenschaftliche Wahrheit pflegt sich nicht in der Weise durchzusetzen, daß ihre Gegner überzeugt werden und sich als belehrt erklären, sondern vielmehr dadurch, daß ihre Gegner allmählich aussterben und daß die heranwachsende Generation von vornherein mit der Wahrheit vertraut gemacht ist. … Eine neue große wissenschaftliche Idee pflegt sich nicht in der Weise durchzusetzen, daß ihre Gegner allmählich überzeugt und bekehrt werden — daß aus einem Saulus ein Paulus wird, ist eine große Seltenheit —, sondern vielmehr in der Weise, dass die Gegner allmählich aussterben und daß die heranwachsende Generation von vornherein mit der Idee vertraut gemacht wird. Auch hier heißt es wieder: Wer die Jugend hat, der hat die Zukunft. <ul><li><b>A new scientific <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> does not generally triumph by persuading its opponents and getting them to admit their errors, but rather by its opponents gradually dying out and giving way to a new generation that is raised on it.</b> … An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth. <ul><li><i>Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiographie. Mit einem Bildnis und der von Max von Laue gehaltenen Traueransprache.</i> Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag (Leipzig 1948), p. 22, in <i>Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers,</i> (1949), as translated by F. Gaynor, pp. 33–34, 97 (as cited in <a href="/wiki/T._S._Kuhn" class="mw-redirect" title="T. S. Kuhn">T. S. Kuhn</a>, <i>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</i>). Translation revised by Eric Weinberger.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li>Paraphrased variants:</li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li><i>Die Wahrheit triumphiert nie, ihre Gegner sterben nur aus.</i></li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li>Truth never triumphs—its opponents just die out.</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>Science advances one funeral at a time.</li></ul></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The energy and entropy of the world have no meaning, because such quantities admit of no accurate definition. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/treatiseonthermo00planrich/page/100/mode/2up?view=theater">Treatise on Thermodynamics, 1903, Translated by Alexander Ogg</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Experimenters are the shocktroops of science… An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer. But before an experiment can be performed, it must be planned – the question to nature must be formulated before being posed. Before the result of a measurement can be used, it must be interpreted – Nature’s answer must be understood properly. These two tasks are those of theorists, who find himself always more and more dependent on the tools of abstract mathematics. <ul><li><i>Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers</i> (1949)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Under these conditions it is no wonder, that the movement of <a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheists</a>, which declares religion to be just a deliberate illusion, invented by <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a>-seeking priests, and which has for the pious <a href="/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">belief</a> in a higher Power nothing but words of mockery, eagerly makes use of progressive scientific knowledge and in a presumed <a href="/wiki/Unity" title="Unity">unity</a> with it, expands in an ever faster pace its disintegrating <a href="/wiki/Action" title="Action">action</a> on all nations of the earth and on all social levels. I do not need to explain in any more detail that after its <a href="/wiki/Victory" title="Victory">victory</a> not only all the most precious treasures of our <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a> would vanish, but — which is even worse — also any prospects at a better <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a>. <ul><li><i>Religion und Naturwissenschaft</i> (1958)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It [science] has as its highest principle and most coveted aim the solution of the problem to condense all natural phenomena which have been observed and are still to be observed into <a href="/wiki/Unification_in_science_and_mathematics" title="Unification in science and mathematics">one simple principle</a>, that allows the computation of past and more especially of future processes from present ones. ...Amid the more or less general laws which mark the achievements of physical science during the course of the last centuries, the <a href="/wiki/Principle_of_least_action" title="Principle of least action">principle of least action</a> is perhaps that which, as regards form and content, may claim to come nearest to that ideal final aim of theoretical research. <ul><li>As quoted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Kline" class="extiw" title="w:Morris Kline">Morris Kline</a>, <i>Mathematics and the Physical World</i> (1959) Ch. 25: From Calculus to Cosmic Planning, pp. 441–42.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Experiments are the only means of <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a> at our disposal. The rest is poetry, <a href="/wiki/Imagination" title="Imagination">imagination</a>. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Advances in Biochemical Psychopharmacology</i>, Vol. 25 (1980), p. 3</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>That God existed before there were human beings on Earth, that He holds the entire world, believers and non-believers, in His omnipotent hand for eternity, and that He will remain enthroned on a level inaccessible to human comprehension long after the Earth and everything that is on it has gone to ruins; those who profess this faith and who, inspired by it, in veneration and complete confidence, feel secure from the dangers of life under protection of the Almighty, only those may number themselves among the truly religious. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>God’s Laughter</i> (1992) by Gerhard Staguhn, p. 152</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion_and_Natural_Science_(1937)"><span id="Religion_and_Natural_Science_.281937.29"></span><i>Religion and Natural Science</i> (1937)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Planck&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Religion and Natural Science (1937)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Max_Planck.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Max_Planck.png/220px-Max_Planck.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="327" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Max_Planck.png 1.5x" data-file-width="236" data-file-height="351" /></a><figcaption>Only that definite and clear instruction which we gain can form a direct inner link to <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>.<br /> This instruction alone is able to give us the inner firmness and lasting <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> which must be regarded as the highest boon in <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>.</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><small>Lecture about the relationship between religion and science. Originally entitled <i>Religion und Naturwissenschaft</i>. Complete translation into English found in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=qtK0Yrm82PwC&dq=%22the+world+order+of+science+with+the+God+or+religion%22&q=%22Having+now+learned%22#v=snippet&q=%22Having%20now%20learned%22&f=false"><i>Max Planck: Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers</i> (1968)</a> </small></dd></dl> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R0116-504,_Max_Planck.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R0116-504%2C_Max_Planck.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R0116-504%2C_Max_Planck.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="317" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R0116-504%2C_Max_Planck.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R0116-504%2C_Max_Planck.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R0116-504%2C_Max_Planck.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R0116-504%2C_Max_Planck.jpg 2x" data-file-width="553" data-file-height="798" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">Religion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Natural" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural">natural</a> <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never relaxing crusade against <a href="/wiki/Scepticism" class="mw-redirect" title="Scepticism">scepticism</a> and against <a href="/wiki/Dogmatism" class="mw-redirect" title="Dogmatism">dogmatism</a>, against disbelief and against <a href="/wiki/Superstition" title="Superstition">superstition</a>, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and always will be: <i>"On to <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>!"</i></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Both <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> require a <a href="/wiki/Belief" title="Belief">belief</a> in <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>. For believers, God is in the <a href="/wiki/Beginning" class="mw-redirect" title="Beginning">beginning</a>, and for physicists He is at the <a href="/wiki/End" title="End">end</a> of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized <a href="/wiki/World_view" title="World view">world view</a>. <ul><li><i>Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers</i> as translated by F. Gaynor (1949), p. 184</li> <li>Variant translations:</li> <li>Both religion and science need for their activities the belief in God, and moreover God stands for the former in the beginning, and for the latter at the end of the whole thinking. For the former, God represents the basis, for the latter – the crown of any reasoning concerning the world-view. <ul><li><i>Religion und Naturwissenschaft</i> (1958 edition), p. 27, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nobelist.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/50-nobelists.pdf"><i>50 Nobel Laureates and Other Great Scientists Who Believe in God</i> (2008) by Tihomir Dimitrov</a></li></ul></li> <li>While both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view. <ul><li><i>Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers</i> (1968 edition)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Natural science wants man to learn, religion wants him to act.</li></ul> <ul><li>Long and tedious reflection cannot enable us to shape our decisions and attitudes properly; only that definite and clear instruction which we gain can form a direct inner link to God. This instruction alone is able to give us the inner firmness and lasting <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a> which must be regarded as the highest boon in life. And if we ascribe to God, in addition to His omnipotence and omniscience, also the attributes of goodness and <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>, recourse to Him produces an increased feeling of safety and happiness in the human being thirsting for solace. Against this conception not even the slightest objection can be raised from the point of natural science, for as we pointed it out before, questions of <a href="/wiki/Ethics" title="Ethics">ethics</a> are entirely outside of its realm.</li></ul> <ul><li>No matter where and how far we look, nowhere do we find a contradiction between religion and natural science. On the contrary, we find a complete concordance in the very points of decisive importance. Religion and natural science do not exclude each other, as many contemporaries of ours would believe or fear. They mutually supplement and condition each other. The most immediate proof of the compatibility of religion and natural science, even under the most thorough critical scrutiny, is the historical fact that the very greatest natural scientists of all times—men such as <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Kepler" title="Johannes Kepler">Kepler</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newton" class="mw-redirect" title="Newton">Newton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leibniz" class="mw-redirect" title="Leibniz">Leibniz</a>—were permeated by a most profound religious attitude.</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">Religion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Natural" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural">natural</a> <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never relaxing crusade against <a href="/wiki/Scepticism" class="mw-redirect" title="Scepticism">scepticism</a> and against <a href="/wiki/Dogmatism" class="mw-redirect" title="Dogmatism">dogmatism</a>, against disbelief and against <a href="/wiki/Superstition" title="Superstition">superstition</a>, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and always will be: <i>"On to <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>!"</i></li></ul> <p><br /></p><div style="padding: .5em; border: 1px solid black; background-color: #FFE7CC;"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Misattributed">Misattributed</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Planck&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Misattributed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller" title="Max Müller">Max Müller</a>, as quoted in <i>Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources</i> (1899) by James Wood</li></ul></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_about_Planck">Quotes about Planck</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Planck&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Quotes about Planck"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Max_Planck..jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Max_Planck..jpg/220px-Max_Planck..jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Max_Planck..jpg/330px-Max_Planck..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Max_Planck..jpg/440px-Max_Planck..jpg 2x" data-file-width="9074" data-file-height="11315" /></a><figcaption>A man to whom it has been given to <a href="/wiki/Bless" class="mw-redirect" title="Bless">bless</a> the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Great">great</a> <a href="/wiki/Creative" class="mw-redirect" title="Creative">creative</a> <a href="/wiki/Idea" class="mw-redirect" title="Idea">idea</a> has no need for the <a href="/wiki/Praise" title="Praise">praise</a> of posterity. His very achievement has already conferred a higher boon upon him. ~ <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Black_body.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Black_body.svg/220px-Black_body.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Black_body.svg/330px-Black_body.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Black_body.svg/440px-Black_body.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>It was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_law" class="extiw" title="w:Planck's law">Planck's law of radiation</a> that yielded the first exact determination—independent of other assumptions—of the absolute magnitudes of <a href="/wiki/Atoms" class="mw-redirect" title="Atoms">atoms</a>. More than that, he showed convincingly that in addition to the atomistic structure of matter there is a kind of atomistic structure to <a href="/wiki/Energy" title="Energy">energy</a>, governed by the universal constant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant" class="extiw" title="w:Planck constant">h</a>, which was introduced by Planck. ~ <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>There is no particular mystery about mathematical analysis; its only distinguishing feature is that it is more trustworthy, more precise, and permits us to proceed farther and along safer lines.<br />Consider, for example, the well-known change of colour from red to white displayed by the light radiated through an aperture made in a heated enclosure, as the temperature increases. From this elementary fact of observation Planck, thanks to mathematical analysis, was able to deduce the existence of light quanta and thence the possibility that all processes of change were discontinuous, and that a body could only rotate with definite speeds. Obviously, commonplace reasoning unaided by mathematics would never have led us even to suspect these extraordinary results. <ul><li>A. D'Abro, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/TheEvolutionOfScientificThought">The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein</a></i> (1927) Foreword.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Inasmuch as both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh%E2%80%93Jeans_law" class="extiw" title="w:Rayleigh–Jeans law">Rayleigh's</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien_approximation" class="extiw" title="w:Wien approximation">Wien's laws</a> of radiation, though incorrect, appear to express facts correctly at opposite limits of temperature and frequency, we may presume that the correct law must have an intermediary form, passing over into Rayleigh's when [temperature] T is large and [frequency] <i>ν</i> small, and into Wein's when the reverse situation... Planck, guided by these considerations, devised a new theory of radiation which he called the "Quantum Theory." From this theory Planck was able to derive a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_law" class="extiw" title="w:Planck's law">radiation law</a> which satisfied Wien's relation, ...the displacement law [when the temperature is increased, intensities of all the frequencies increase, while the radiation of maximum intensity is directly proportional to the absolute temperature] and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law" class="extiw" title="w:Stefan–Boltzmann law">Stefan's law</a>, and which was in excellent agreement with experimental measurements at all temperatures. <ul><li>A. D'Abro, <i>The Rise of the New Physics, Its Mathematical and Physical Theories</i> (1939) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015077913104">Vol. 2</a>. p. 457</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Besides inventing quantum theory, Planck had made another great contribution to science by welcoming and generously supporting the young Albert Einstein. In 1905, when Einstein, then an unknown employee of the Swiss patent office in Bern, sent five revolutionary papers to the physics journal that Planck edited in Berlin, Planck immediately recognized them as works of genius and published them quickly without sending them to referees. He did not agree with all of Einstein’s ideas, but he published all of them. He helped Einstein to move ahead in the academic world, and in 1913 invited him to a full professorship in Berlin. For twenty years Planck and Einstein were friends and colleagues in Berlin, leaders of a scientific community that remained creative and vibrant, in spite of the political and economic disarray that surrounded them. Planck was the rock-solid central figure of German science, with the vision to promote the unorthodox and unpatriotic citizen-of-the-world Einstein. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freeman_Dyson" title="Freeman Dyson">Freeman Dyson</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal"> (October 22, 2015)"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/10/22/max-planck-tragic-choices/"><i>Max Planck: The Tragic Choices</i> (review of <i>Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War</i> by Brandon R. Brown)</a>". <i>The New York Review of Books</i>: 33-34.</cite></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A man to whom it has been given to bless the world with a great creative idea has no need for the praise of posterity. His very achievement has already conferred a higher boon upon him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, "Max Planck in Memoriam" (1948)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_law" class="extiw" title="w:Planck's law">Planck's law of radiation</a> that yielded the first exact determination—independent of other assumptions—of the absolute magnitudes of atoms. More than that, he showed convincingly that in addition to the atomistic structure of matter there is a kind of atomistic structure to energy, governed by the universal constant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant" class="extiw" title="w:Planck constant">h</a>, which was introduced by Planck. This discovery became the basis of all twentieth-century research in physics and has almost entirely conditioned its development ever since. Without this discovery it would not have been possible to establish a workable theory of molecules and atoms and the energy processes that govern their transformations. Moreover, it has shattered the whole framework of classical mechanics and electrodynamics and set science a fresh task: that of finding a new conceptual basis for all of physics. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, "Max Planck in Memoriam" (1948)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Max Planck says, <i>The opposition never yields; they just die off.</i> It’s just a question of time. They are dying off. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller" title="Buckminster Fuller">Buckminster Fuller</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/85/buckminster-fuller-talks-politics">Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics, (1982)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is clear, however, that the distinguishing mark of the whole development of theoretical chemistry and physics is the elimination of the anthropomorphic elements, especially specific sense-impressions, from the concepts. This process is called by Prof. M. Planck the objectification of the physical system. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._R._Partington" title="J. R. Partington">J. R. Partington</a>, <i>Higher Mathematics for Chemical Students</i> (1911)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In early physical systems we have optics dealing with phenomena perceived by the eye; acoustics treating of auditory percepts, and so on. The subjective concepts of "tone" and "colour" have now been replaced by the objectified concepts of frequency of vibration; and wave-length. The object of this process of elimination is, according to Planck, the striving towards a unification of the whole theoretical system, so that it shall be equally significant for all intelligent beings. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._R._Partington" title="J. R. Partington">J. R. Partington</a>, <i>Higher Mathematics for Chemical Students</i> (1911)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Planck ...devised his quanta theory, according to which the exchange of energy between the matter and the ether—or rather between ordinary matter and the small resonators whose vibrations furnish the light of incandescent matter—can take place only intermittently. A resonator can not gain energy or lose it in a continuous manner. It can not gain a fraction of a quantum; it must acquire a whole quantum or none at all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9" title="Henri Poincaré">Henri Poincaré</a>, "The Connection Between Ether and Matter," <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WI9ZAAAAIAAJ">Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution</a> (1912) p.199</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Planck was interested in physics, so he sought out the advice of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_von_Jolly" class="extiw" title="w:Philipp von Jolly">Philipp von Jolly</a> of the University of Munich, which he was to enter. Jolly... told Planck that "in this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes." ...Planck replied that he didn't wish to discover new things, only to understand what was already known in the field. <ul><li>James D. Stein, <i>Cosmic Numbers: The Numbers that Define Our Universe</i> (2011)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>So by December 1900 Planck had changed everything in physics and chemistry. The only problem was he didn’t realize it. [...] Although he didn’t realize it, Planck had removed a foundation stone from the edifice of classical physics; it would take another twenty-five years for the entire structure to collapse. However, the immediate reaction was ... nothing. For the next five years neither Planck nor any of the great physicists of the era took up the meaning and extension of Planck’s ideas. <ul><li>Douglas A. Stone, <i>Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian</i> (2013), Chapter 1: "An Act of Desperation"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Planck had slipped the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant" class="extiw" title="w:Planck constant">quantum of action</a> into his not fully consistent reasoning. He had, without wholly realizing it, introduced an essential element of discreteness into the description of nature, an element alien to the theories of mechanics and electromagnetism as they then existed. To the young <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Einstein</a>, however, the imperfections were all too clear... he was hit with a new paradox: Planck was deriving empirically correct equations from hypotheses that contradicted the principles of physics... <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Wilczek" title="Frank Wilczek">Frank Wilczek</a> & <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Devine" class="extiw" title="w:Betsy Devine">Betsy Devine</a>, <i>Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics</i> (1987)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Many kinds of men devote themselves to science, and not all for the sake of science herself. There are some who come into her temple because it offers them the opportunity to display their particular talents. To this class of men science is a kind of sport in the practice of which they exult, just as an athlete exults in the exercise of his muscular prowess. There is another class of men who come into the temple to make an offering of their brain pulp in the hope of securing a profitable return. These men are scientists only by the chance of some circumstance which offered itself when making a choice of career. If the attending circumstances had been different, they might have become politicians or captains of business. Should an angel of God descend and drive from the temple of science all those who belong to the categories I have mentioned, I fear the temple would be nearly emptied. But a few worshipers would still remain -- some from former times and some from ours. To these latter belongs our Planck. And that is why we love him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>'s Prologue to <i>Where is Science Going?</i> By Max Planck. 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