Max Planck

"Life–Work–Personality : Exhibition on the 50th anniversary of Planck's death"

"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination."

"Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time."

"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…"

"Under these conditions it is no wonder, that the movement of atheists, which declares religion to be just a deliberate illusion, invented by power-seeking priests, and which has for the pious belief i…"

"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 c…"

"Max Planck - Encyclopædia Britannica article"

"It 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 one simple principle, that…"