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Max Born
German
Mathematician
About the author
And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.
Max Born,
German
Mathematician
#Science
#Theories
I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
Max Born,
German
Mathematician
#Now
#Physics
#Philosophy
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 little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
Max Born,
German
Mathematician
#God
#Success
#World
#Intellect
#Order
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
Max Born,
German
Mathematician
#Reason
#Intellect
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Max Born,
German
Mathematician
#World
#Belief
#Evil
#Truth
#Possession
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 scientific method.
Max Born,
German
Mathematician