Max Planck Quotes

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

My future is about God.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.

Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.