Max Born Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

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

  Max Born

  Civilization, Atheism, Tradition

  1968 My Life and Views.

  12 Copy quote

• 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 writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.

  Max Born

  Book, Writing, Science

  5 Copy quote

• 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, amusing, temperamental, kind and generous, and he had a most perfect and efficient brain.

  Max Born

  Independent, Science, People

  Max Born (2014). “My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate”, p.270, Routledge

  7 Copy quote

• It is a fascinating fact that father and son have given the most striking evidence for the apparently contradictory properties of the electron: the father proving its character as a particle, the son its character as a wave... Thomson was extremely proud of his son's success and tried to assimilate the new results into his old convictions.

  Max Born

  Father, Character, Son

  14 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations. ... They express mathematically the physical concept of contiguous action.
  Einstein's Theory of Relativity

  Max Born

  Mean, Body, Adequate

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

Page 2 of 2

First

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin