Max Planck, on matter and mind

Max Planck, on matter and mind

 

Professor Planck in 1918
Max Planck’s official 1918 Nobel Prize photograph (Wikimedia Commons)
Planck, the founder of quantum theory, was among the most significant scientists of the twentieth century. He died in 1947.

 

“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle 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

 

Posted from London, England

 


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