Max Planck Quotes
Faith in miracles must yield ground, step by step, before the steady and firm advance of the forces of science, and its total defeat is indubitably a mere matter of time.
Max Planck, 1858-1947, German Nobel Laureate in Physics, Attributed, 1937
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The same polarization is still with us.
In 1877 Wasburn was dropped from the List of Ministers by the Unitarian Church. He had become very critical of organized and orthodox religion of all kinds.
Scientists themselves contain religious believers as well as atheists and agnostics, While there are a number of scientists who argue against religion, there are many who do not and are believers. Albert Einstein, for example, was a believer in a universal God. See {631763}.
At the time, the public investment in science was just exploded as a result of the Manhattan Project, the effort that researched and built the first atomic bomb. By the end of the 20th century, a period of a little more than 50 years science research was funded in the billions of dollars and even correcting for inflation, the investment (Federal, State, and Local) had multiplied many fold.
This statement be the world’s greatest scientist persuaded many fundamentalist religious people to try and protect their children from science and it anti-religious influence. Many other religious thinkers would argue that the science experience of youth was not anti-religious but threatened literal interpretations of the Bible which for many has little to do with religion.
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, ForMemRS was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
