Max Planck Quotes

It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

And the whole is greater than the part.

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.

So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.

Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

All things are delicately interconnected.

There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask where can I get help from a whole range of disciplines.

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.

You are always trying to make something that is more than the sum of its parts.

The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole.

My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.

I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact - that we are the world and the world is us. The world is each one of us; to feel that, to be really committed to it and to nothing else, brings about a feeling of great responsibility and an action that must not be fragmentary, but whole.

You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. [...] Nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.

you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.

No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.