Max Planck Quotes

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things.

Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

It is not at all simple to understand the simple.

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.

We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself - indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.

Things are simple when you're going to die.

So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

All our thinking constitutes the new world, but all our thoughts are older and older.

What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.

What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems

Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.

Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.