Dilemmas of an Upright Man Quotes

“The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.”
― Max Planck, Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

“The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and forEinsteinand every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief.”
― Max Planck, Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

“[I do not believe] in a personal God, let alone a Christian God.”
― Max Planck, Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

“The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of all physicists of all places, all times, all peoples, and all cultures.”
― Max Planck, Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

“On the other side, Church spokesmen could scarcely become enthusiastic about Planck's deism, which omitted all reference to established religions and had no more doctrinal content than Einstein's Judaism.”
― J.L. Heilbron, Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

“Woe to the investigator so in love with his new idea that he neglects to test it rigorously against received wisdom; woe also to the investigator so in love with his old conceptions that he refuses to weigh the merits of a new insight.”
― J.L. Heilbron, Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science