Max Planck Quotes


There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls


Citations

Planck, Max. Where Is Science Going? Translated by James Murphy, W. W. Norton & Company, 1932, p. 168.

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Max Planck
Max Planck
  • Born: April 23, 1858
  • Died: October 4, 1947
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Scientist

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.