Max Born Quotes

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• If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict…
• All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
• But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and…
• I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,…
• 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 obsolete.…
• Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would…
• The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil…
• His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person, independent,…
• Physics as we know it will be over in six months.
• I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
• But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and…
• I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any…
• If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the vacuum, nothingness], and…
• There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the…
• It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.
• Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.
• To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic…
• It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and…
• My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret…
• 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 handling…

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