The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.

- Max Born

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can b…

- Max Born

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced b…

- Max Born

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error,…

- Max Born

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

- Max Born

Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would make God sma…

- Max Born

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

- Max Born

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

- Max Born

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

- Max Born