Max Planck
 

“As physicist, as a man, who for all his life served the down-to-earth science of investigating matter, I am certainly free of the suspicion of being considered a dreamer. And therefore according to my experiences with the atom I say the following:

There is no matter as such, all matter comes into being and exists through a force, which brings the atomic particles into vibration and keeps them together in that tiny solar system of the atom.
4. 11. 18.
5. 10. 17.

Since there exists neither an intelligent nor an eternal abstract power in the entire universe - mankind never succeeded to find the intensively longed for ‘perpetuum mobile’ (that which is moved by itself) - therefore we have to assume conscious, intelligent spirit behind this power.
12.-14. 22, 23, 19.-21. 34, 35

This spirit is the primordial ground of matter;
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1.-3. 1, 12.-14. 24, 19.-21. 36

not the visible but transitory matter is the real, the true (the ground) –
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because this matter, as we have seen, would not exist at all without this spirit –
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15. 25, 16. 26, 27, 17. 28, 29, 30

but the invisible, immortal spirit is the true.
1.-3. 2, 3, 12.-14. 22, 23, 19.-21. 34, 35

But since mind/spirit cannot exist as such, and since every mind/spirit belongs to a being, we have to assume, with compelling logic, mind/spirit -beings.
1.-3. 2, 3, 11. 21, 12.-14. 22, 23, 18. 33, 19.-21. 34, 35

But since also mind/spirit-beings can not be by themselves, but have to be created, therefore I do not fight shy to call this mysterious Creator in the very same way, as all peoples with culture on earth of earlier millennia have called him: ‘God’.”
7. 8. 15.
5. 10. 17.
4. 11. 18.
6. 9. 16.

Max Planck
Nobel Laureate for physics
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