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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 trying to solve.

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 trying to solve.

Max Planck

Nature, Science, Trying

Max Planck (1933). “Where is science going?”

This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?

Max Planck

Nature, Science, Men

Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Max Planck

Nature, Science, Answers

Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.58, Open Road Media

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

Max Planck

Nature, Science, World

Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature because the state of equal temperature distribution is more probable than a state of unequal temperature distribution.

Max Planck

Nature, Science, Body

Max Planck (1915). “Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909”, p.74, Library of Alexandria