It is a fascinating fact that father and son have given the most striking evidence for the apparently contradictory properties of the electron: the father proving its character as a particle, the son its character as a wave... Thomson was… — Max Born Copy Share Image
It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore nobody will object to an ardent experimentalist boasting of his measurements and rather looking down on the 'paper… — 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
