If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the… — Max Born Copy Share Image
To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a… — Max Born Copy Share Image
All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed. — Max Born Copy Share Image
I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Science is not formal logic-it needs the free play of the mind in as great a degree as any other creative art. It is… — Max Born Copy Share Image
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now… — Max Born Copy Share Image
We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization. — Max Born Copy Share Image
The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless… — Max Born Copy Share Image
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to… — Max Born Copy Share Image
It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living… — Max Born Copy Share Image
And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as… — Max Born Copy Share Image
The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations. ... They… — Max Born Copy Share Image
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