Derek Weightman

“[I do not believe] in a personal God, let alone a Christian God.”
― Max Planck, Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. . . . We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.”
― Max Planck, The New Science

“An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.”
― Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

“An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.”
― Max Planck