All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. Thi…

- Max Planck

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are writt…

- Max Planck

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

- Max Planck

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk …

- Max Planck

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

- Max Planck

Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.

- Max Planck

Science advances one funeral at a time.

- Max Planck

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are tr…

- Max Planck

In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.

- Max Planck