Max Planck

Also known as Max von Planck

Occupation: pedagogue, classical philologist, historian, teacher at a Gymnasium
Position held: Q2520871, in-home tutor, repetitor, repetitor
Citizenship: Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire, German Reich, Germany
Born: July 8, 1822
Died: April 8, 1900

Family

Henriette Planckspouse Karl Planckfather

Roth, Karl Ludwig (ADB)known for in-home tutorposition held repetitorposition held rectorposition held professorposition held head teacherposition held Oberstudienratposition held University of Tübingeneducated at Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeureneducated at Verbindung Normannia Tübingenmember of

Also known as Max von Planck

Notable quotes

“Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.”
— From Planck to Study (2 December 1913), (Autog. I/383, SPK); as quoted in The Dilemmas of an Upright Man : Max Planck As Spokesman for German Science (1986) by J. L. Heilbron, p. 67
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
— The Observer (London, England) (25 January 1931), p. 17
“Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.”
— As quoted in Advances in Biochemical Psychopharmacology, Vol. 25 (1980), p. 3
“But science sets out confidently on the endeavor finally to know the thing in itself, and even though we realize that this ideal goal can never be completely reached, still we struggle on towards it untiringly. And we know that at every step of the way each effort will be richly rewarded.”
— Causation and free will: the problem stated, p. 139f.
“Again and again the imaginary plan on which one attempts to build up that order breaks down and then we must try another. This imaginative vision and faith in the ultimate success are indispensable. The pure rationalist has no place here.”
— Epilogue, p. 215
“Both religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.”
— Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers as translated by F. Gaynor (1949), p. 184

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Max Planck

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