Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max PlanckAbout author
- Author's profession: Scientist
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: April 23, 1858
- Died: October 4, 1947
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