If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

Richard Courant a mathematician and Privatdozent called these people the "in group. Shortly after World War II a number of scientists suggested that Born update and translate his work into English. Despite never practising his religion Born refused to convert and his wedding on 2 August 1913 was a garden ceremony.

He retired to Bad Pyrmont in West Germany. He died in hospital in Göttingen on 5 January 1970.