Max Born Quotes About Physics

Quotes about: Physics

• 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, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.

  Max Born

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

• Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

  Max Born

  Follow Your Dreams, Six Months, Physics

  "A Brief History of Time". Book by Stephen Hawking, Ch. 11, March 1, 1988.

• I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

  Max Born

  Philosophy, Theoretical Physics, Convinced

  "Schrodinger : Life and Thought" by Walter J. Moore, (p. 1), 1992.

• 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 and ink' physics of his theoretical friend, who on his part is proud of his lofty ideas and despises the dirty fingers of the other.
  Experiment and Theory in Physics

  Max Born

  Dirty, Men, Hands

• The problem of physics is how the actual phenomena, as observed with the help of our sense organs aided by instruments, can be reduced to simple notions which are suited for precise measurement and used of the formulation of quantitative laws.
  Experiment and Theory in Physics

  Max Born

  Simple, Law, Measurement

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