Max Planck Quotes

If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

It's difficult to change things in a positive way.

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

Change is not made without inconvenience.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.

When we are accomplishing the good, the greatest opposition comes.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.

The new frontier is here whether we seek it or not.

It is well that the beaten ways of the world get trodden into mud : we are thus forced to seek new paths and pick out new lines of life.