Quote of the Day
Sep. 7th, 2017 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The work, for which I have had the honour to be awarded the Nobel Prize for 1954, contains no discovery of a fresh natural phenomenon, but rather the basis for a new mode of thought in regard to natural phenomena.
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Planck, himself, belonged to the sceptics until he died. Einstein, De Broglie, and Schrödinger have unceasingly stressed the unsatisfactory features of quantum mechanics and called for a return to the concepts of classical, Newtonian physics while proposing ways in which this could be done without contradicting experimental facts.
--- Max Born. Nobel Prize (1954) Lecture.
