Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers Quotes

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
― Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers

“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

“The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.”
― Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers