Max Planck Zitate (43 Zitate) | Zitate berühmter Personen

Max Planck: 43 Zitate 80 Gefällt mir

Max Planck Berühmte Zitate

„Wenn Sie die Art und Weise ändern, wie Sie die Dinge betrachten, ändern sich die Dinge, die Sie betrachten.“

Max Planck

„Die Wahrheit triumphiert nie, ihre Gegner sterben nur aus.“

Max Planck

„Die Naturwissenschaften wollen, dass man lernt, die Religion will, dass man handelt.“

Max Planck

Religion und Naturwissenschaft, Vortrag, gehalten im Baltikum im Mai 1937. In: Vorträge Reden Erinnerungen, Hrsg. Hans Roos und Armin Hermann, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 9783642625206, S. 170, Oft auch zugeschrieben als: "Die Naturwissenschaft braucht der Mensch zum Erkennen, den Glauben zum Handeln." - z.B. Grußwort http://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Reden/DE/Horst-Koehler/Reden/2007/06/20070629_Rede.html von Bundespräsident Horst Köhler bei der 58. Jahresversammlung der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, Kiel, 29. Juni 2007

„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.“

Max Planck

„Als Mann, der sein ganzes Leben der klarsten Wissenschaft gewidmet hat, dem Studium der Materie, kann ich Ihnen als Ergebnis meiner Forschung über die Atome so viel sagen: Es gibt keine Materie als solche! Alle Materie entsteht und existiert nur aufgrund einer Kraft, die die Teilchen eines Atoms zur Schwingung bringt und dieses kleinste Sonnensystem des Atoms zusammenhält. Wir müssen hinter dieser Kraft die Existenz eines bewussten und intelligenten Geistes annehmen. Dieser Geist ist die Matrix aller Materie.“

Max Planck

„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.“

Max Planck

Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiographie, Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag, Leipzig, 1948, S.22

Max Planck Zitate und Sprüche

„Auch eine Enttäuschung, wenn sie nur gründlich und endgültig ist, bedeutet einen Schritt vorwärts, und die mit der Resignation verbundenen Opfer würden reichlich aufgewogen werden durch den Gewinn an Schätzen neuer Erkenntnis.“

Max Planck

Über Enttäuschung

„Es ist der stetig fortgesetzte, nie erlahmende Kampf gegen Skeptizismus und gegen Dogmatismus, gegen Unglaube und gegen Aberglaube, den Religion und Naturwissenschaft gemeinsam führen, und das richtungsweisende Losungswort in diesem Kampf lautet von jeher und in alle Zukunft: Hin zu Gott!“

Max Planck

Über Gott , Über Religion , Über Ehe , Zukunft

„Wer es einmal so weit gebracht hat, daß er nicht mehr irrt, der hat auch zu arbeiten aufgehört.“

Max Planck

Neue Bahnen der physikalischen Erkenntnis, Antritt des Rektorats der Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität Berlin, 15. Oktober 1913. In: Physikalische Rundblicke, Verlag von S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1922, S. 80,

„Denn auch eine Enttäuschung, wenn sie nur gründlich und endgültig ist, bedeutet einen Schritt vorwärts, und die mit der Resignation verbundenen Opfer würden reichlich aufgewogen werden durch den Gewinn an Schätzen neuer Erkenntnis.“

Max Planck

Die Stellung der neueren Physik zur mechanischen Naturanschauung (Vortrag, gehalten am 23. September 1910 auf der 82. Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte in Königsberg), in: Die Umschau. 14. Jg., 1910, Nr. 44. S. 872. Sowie in: Max Planck, Physikalische Rundblicke - Gesammelte Reden und Aufsätze, S. Hirzel Verlag, Leipzig 1922. S. 63 http://books.google.de/books?ei=VyuHT7GcNpGa8gOx6qzGBw&hl=de&id=NsnPAAAAMAAJ&dq=planck+Physikalische+Rundblicke&q=eine+Entt%C3%A4uschung%2C+#search_anchor

Über Enttäuschung

„Es braucht kaum hervorgehoben zu werden, daß diese neue Auffassung des Zeitbegriffs an die Abstraktionsfähigkeit und an die Einbildungskraft des Physikers die allerhöchsten Anforderungen stellt. Sie übertrifft an Kühnheit wohl alles, was bisher in der spekulativen Naturforschung, ja in der philosophischen Erkenntnistheorie geleistet wurde; die nichteuklidische Geometrie ist Kinderspiel dagegen. […] Mit der durch dies Prinzip im Bereiche der physikalischen Weltanschauung hervorgerufenden Umwälzung ist an Ausdehnung und Tiefe wohl nur noch die durch die Einführung des Copernikanischen Weltsystems bedingte zu vergleichen.“

Max Planck

Acht Vorlesungen über theoretische Physik, Hirzel, Leipzig 1910, S. 117 f., books.google.de https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=fjrQAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Zeitbegriffs%22

Über Bildung

„[…] der unermeßlich reichen, stets sich erneuernden Natur gegenüber wird der Mensch, so weit er auch in der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnis fortgeschritten sein mag, immer das sich wundernde Kind bleiben und muß sich stets auf neue Überraschungen gefaßt machen.“

Max Planck

Sinn und Grenzen der exakten Wissenschaft, Vortrag, gehalten im November 1941 im Harnackhaus der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. In: Vorträge Reden Erinnerungen, Hrsg. Hans Roos und Armin Hermann, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 9783642625206, S. 190,

Über natur , Über Kinder , Über Menschen

„Welches ist nun die Richtung dieses Fortschrittes und welchem Ziel strebt er zu? Die Richtung ist offenbar eine beständige Verfeinerung des Weltbildes durch Zurückführung der in ihm enthaltenen realen Elemente auf ein höheres Reales von weniger naiver Beschaffenheit. Das Ziel aber ist die Schaffung eines Weltbildes, dessen Realitäten keinerlei Verbesserung mehr bedürftig sind und die daher das endgültig Reale darstellen. Eine nachweisliche Erreichung dieses Zieles wird und kann niemals gelingen.“

Max Planck

Max Planck: Zitate auf Englisch

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

Help us translate this quote

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.”

Help us translate this quote

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.
Quelle: Where is Science Going? (1932)

“Science advances one funeral at a time.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

Quelle: Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

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

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics (1931)

“No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

Max Müller, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood
Misattributed

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

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.

“Truth never triumphs—its opponents just die out.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

Variante: Science advances one funeral at a time.

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

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

“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 peace of mind 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 love, 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 ethics are entirely outside of its realm.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

Religion and Natural Science (1937)

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

As quoted in God’s Laughter (1992) by Gerhard Staguhn, p. 152

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

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

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

“A new scientific truth 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. … 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

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.
Wissenschaftliche Selbstbiographie. Mit einem Bildnis und der von Max von Laue gehaltenen Traueransprache. Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag (Leipzig 1948), p. 22, in Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, (1949), as translated by F. Gaynor, pp. 33–34, 97 (as cited in T. S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions). Translation revised by Eric Weinberger.

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

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

Quelle: Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers (1949)
Kontext: 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.

“Both religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers as translated by F. Gaynor (1949), p. 184
Variant translations:
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.
Religion und Naturwissenschaft (1958 edition), p. 27, as quoted in 50 Nobel Laureates and Other Great Scientists Who Believe in God (2008) by Tihomir Dimitrov http://nobelist.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/50-nobelists.pdf
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.
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers (1968 edition)
Religion and Natural Science (1937)

“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 consciousness that we know that this world exists. And that consciousness may to a certain degree be called a special sense.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

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

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

Religion and Natural Science (1937)

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

Where Is Science Going? (1932)

“But science sets out confidently on the endeavor finally to know the thing 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

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

“Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never relaxing crusade against scepticism and against dogmatism, against disbelief and against superstition, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and always will be: "On to God!"”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

Religion and Natural Science (1937)

“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 one simple principle, 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 principle of least action is perhaps that which, as regards form and content, may claim to come nearest to that ideal final aim of theoretical research.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

As quoted by Morris Kline, Mathematics and the Physical World (1959) Ch. 25: From Calculus to Cosmic Planning, pp. 441–42.

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

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

From Planck to Study (2 December 1913), (Autog. I/383, SPK); as quoted in The Dilemmas of an Upright Man : Max Planck As Spokesman for German Science (1986) by J. L. Heilbron, p. 67

“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

Where Is Science Going? (1932)

“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 in a higher Power nothing but words of mockery, eagerly makes use of progressive scientific knowledge and in a presumed unity with it, expands in an ever faster pace its disintegrating action on all nations of the earth and on all social levels. I do not need to explain in any more detail that after its victory not only all the most precious treasures of our culture would vanish, but — which is even worse — also any prospects at a better future.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

Religion und Naturwissenschaft (1958)

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

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

“I regard consciousness 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

Interview in 'The Observer' (25 January 1931), p.17, column 3

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

Help us translate this quote

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.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers (1949)

“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. ...This approach was opened to me by maintaining the two laws of thermodynamics. 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.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Planck

Letter to Robert W. Wood (October 7, 1931) in Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, Microfilm 66, 5, as cited in Thomas S. Kuhn, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894–1912 (1978) pp. 132, 288. Translation of the entire letter, which is follow above is in Armin Hermann, Frühgeschiche der Quantentheorie (1899–1913) 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" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.613.4262&rep=rep1&type=pdf, Physics in Perspective, 4 (2002) 170-215.