Talk:Max Planck

Von Jolly's quote

@DVdm: I see that you added a new source for von Jolly quote saying "In this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few holes." However this seems apocryphal. Here is an analysis of the original quote by Planck about Jolly, that exact quote cannot be found. Maybe it is best to remove the quote. ReyHahn (talk) 20:46, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Neat! Perhaps we can say that Jolly described physics to Planck "as a highly developed, nearly fully matured science, that through the crowning achievement of the discovery of the principle of conservation of energy [it] will arguably soon take its final stable form." We will have to correct the grammar though: the "it" is not where it should be. - DVdm (talk) 22:01, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Works for me. I tried to fix the paragraph, but I had to invert it, it was the wrong dates. Maybe it needs a bit of tweaking.--ReyHahn (talk) 14:25, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

- DVdm (talk) 19:32, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Missing clash

Planck was fundamental on turning the page on old physics. His debate with Ernst Mach] and the energerticists should be mentioned. ReyHahn (talk) 13:14, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Ref error

@BauhausFan89: please fill in a source for the Hartmann ref you added. -- Fyrael (talk) 15:02, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Max Planck believing in a personal God questioned

In the sentence "....believed in an almighty, all-knowing, beneficent God (although not necessarily a personal one)" needs clarification. The text in brackets seems to contradict the preceding statement. I propose to eliminate it or to add a relevant citation. 150.214.192.127 (talk) 14:51, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

German Confederation

As i conclude within MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE, the German Confederation was not a single unified country, it was a political association of 39 sovereign, independent German-speaking states. But for Duchy of Holstein, was an independent sovereign state, unlike other sovereign states of the German-speaking world like Prussia, before the unification. Absolutiva 13:52, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

The infobox currently has birth_place set to "Kiel, Holstein". I think many readers of English Wikipedia won't be familiar with Holstein. Any objections to changing it to ""Kiel, Duchy of Holstein" (as stated in the Early life and education section)? Dotyoyo (talk) 21:43, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

It is concise per MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE, I also added some details in the section as a sovereign state. Absolutiva 22:10, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

It's good to choose the more concise of two synonyms, but Holstein and Duchy of Holstein represent two distinct concepts, as reflected in their having two distinct Wikipedia articles. Dotyoyo (talk) 03:29, 27 February 2026 (UTC)