Max Planck Quotes

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

Sometimes people invent things because they want to stay alive or feed their children or conquer the village next door. But just as often, new ideas come into the world simply because they're fun. And here's the really strange thing: many of those playful but seemingly frivolous inventions ended up sparking momentous transformations in science, in politics and society.

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

You have to think outside the box.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

The secret of innovation is to see what all see but think what none think

I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.

Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.