Frases de Max Planck

„Não é a posse da verdade, mas o sucesso que vem após a pesquisa, onde a busca é enriquecida por ela!“

—  Max Planck

Fonte: http://www.frasesypensamientos.com.ar/autor/max-planck.html frasesypensamientos.com.ar] Frases de Max Planck . Acessado em 03/03/2012.

„É verdade, antes a física era mais simples, harmônica e, portanto, mais satisfatória!“

—  Max Planck

„A ciência não pode resolver o mistério final da natureza. E isso é porque, em última análise, nós mesmos somos parte da natureza e, portanto, parte do mistério que estamos tentando resolver.“

—  Max Planck

" Where is Science Going? (1932)

„Não temos o direito de assumir que as leis físicas existem, ou se eles têm existido até agora, que eles vão continuar a existir de forma semelhante no futuro.“

—  Max Planck

"O Universo na Luz da Física Moderna (1931)

„O mundo externo é algo independente do homem, algo absoluto, e a procura pelas leis que se aplicam a este absoluto mostram-se como a mais sublime busca científica na vida!“

—  Max Planck

Fonte: comciencia.br http://www.comciencia.br/reportagens/fisica/fisica06.htm Max Planck e o início da Teoria Quântica. Acessado em 03/03/2012.

„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 Spirit. This Spirit is the matrix of all matter.“

—  Max Planck

Das Wesen der Materie [The Nature of Matter], 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 The Spontaneous Healing of Belief https://archive.org/stream/GreggBradenTheSpontaneousHealingOfBelief/Gregg%20Braden/Gregg%20Braden%20-%20The%20Spontaneous%20Healing%20Of%20Belief#page/n1 (2008) by Gregg Braden, p. 212; Braden mistranslates intelligenten Geist as "intelligent Mind", which is an obvious tautology.

„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.“

—  Max Planck

Where is science going? The Universe in the light of modern physics. (1932)

„Science advances one funeral at a time.“

—  Max Planck

„Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. 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.“

—  Max Planck

Variants:
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 cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature, for in the final analysis we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
Fonte: Where is Science Going? (1932)

„A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.“

—  Max Planck

Fonte: Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

„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

The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics (1931)

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

—  Max Planck

„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

Where Is Science Going? (1932)
Fonte: Where is Science Going?

„An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.“

—  Max Planck

Fonte: Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers (1949)
Contexto: Experimenters are the schocktroops 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.

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

—  Max Planck

As quoted in Advances in Biochemical Psychopharmacology, Vol. 25 (1980), p. 3

„Natural science wants man to learn, religion wants him to act.“

—  Max Planck

Religion and Natural Science (1937)

„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.“

—  Max Planck

Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers (1949)

„New scientific ideas 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 thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.“

—  Max Planck

Address on the 25th anniversary of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft (January 1936), as quoted in Surviving the Swastika : Scientific Research in Nazi Germany (1993) ISBN 0-19-507010-0

„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 Kepler, Newton, Leibniz—were permeated by a most profound religious attitude.“

—  Max Planck

Religion and Natural Science (1937)