Similarly, Max Planck's academic advisor said to the young would-be physicist that going into physics is a bad idea because all of the big discoveries had been

Similarly, Max Planck's academic advisor said to the young would-be physicist that going into physics is a bad idea because all of the big discoveries had been already made and that physics had become a science concerned mostly with details. Considering the direction physics took in the 20th century and the direct impact Max Planck's work had on it taking that direction, this anecdote, if it is accurate, is just mind-boggling.