The best Quotes by Max Planck

Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.

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.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Which is worse: A lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?

Things never happen the same way twice.

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different...

Every Star that you see in the Sky might be a sun to someone.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Ideas can only be useful when they come to life in many minds.

Nature has to be felt.

I am not the least afraid to die.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Cogito, ergo sum. I think; therefore I am.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

The best way to learn something is to have to teach it.

Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.

The present is the only thing that has no end.

The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

If we made atomic bombs, we would bring about a terrible change in the world. Who knows what would happen from this?

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.