"I am now convinced that theoretical physics is……" — Max Born
"I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy."
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25 Quotes by Max Born
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- If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect…
- 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…
- I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward…
- During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of…
- Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive…
- The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the…
- His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was…
- Physics as we know it will be over in six months.
- But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with…
- I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should…
- If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from…