Consciousness is Fundamental... Max Planck

"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from
consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk
about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."
As quoted in The Observer (25 January 1931)

"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."

Das Wesen der Materie [The Nature of Matter], speech at Florence, Italy
(1944) (from Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Abt. Va, Rep. 11
Planck, Nr. 1797)

"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in
the last analysis, we ourselves are
part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."
Where is Science Going? (1932)

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