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“I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any field of science... This loosening of thinking seems to me to be the greatest blessing which modern science has given to us. For the belief in a single truth and in being the possessor thereof is the root cause of all evil in the world.”

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Max Born, a German physicist born on December 11, 1882 in Hamburg and died on January 5, 1970, played a significant role in the development of quantum mechanics. He is particularly known for his work on wave functions and the Schrödinger equation. Born was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 for his contributions to quantum mechanics. more

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