“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.Max Planck
“An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.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
“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 idea from the beginning.Max Planck
“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
“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