New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however ogranized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his/her problems in lonely thoughts and unites all his thoughts on one single point which is his/her whole world for the moment.

               ---Max Planck, 1936

（Address on the 25th anniversary of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft (January 1936). Source: Wikiquote: "Max Planck")

翻译（冯兆东）：

新的想法很少源自“被组织起来”的一群人。相反，新的科学想法大多源自被激发的个体科学家。如此的个体科学家“孤独地”与他（她）的科学问题争斗着，试图将他（她）的想法归纳成“科学要点”。这个“科学要点”便是他（她）当时的“整个世界”。