No doctrinal system in physical science, or indeed perhaps in any science, will alter its content of its own accord. Here we always need the pressure of outer circumstances. Indeed the more intelligible and comprehensive a theoretical system is the more obstinately it will resist all attempts at reconstruction or expansion.


Translated by James Murphy, Where is Science Going?, Chapter I (p. 40)

Max Planck Quotes

No doctrinal system in physical science, or indeed perhaps in any science, will alter its content of its own accord. Here we always need the pressure ...

No doctrinal system in physical science, or indeed perhaps in any science, will alter its content of its own accord. Here we always need the pressure ...

No doctrinal system in physical science, or indeed perhaps in any science, will alter its content of its own accord. Here we always need the pressure ...

No doctrinal system in physical science, or indeed perhaps in any science, will alter its content of its own accord. Here we always need the pressure ...