The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is… - Max Born

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

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Max Born (11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German physicist and mathematician who became a British citizen, who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s. He shared with Walther Bothe the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics, and was the grandfather of Olivia Newton-John.

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