Philosophy Quote by Max Born

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

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

— Max Born

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

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

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

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

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

— Max Born

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

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

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

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

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