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The 20th century had a specialty for producing great scientists and mathematicians. Most notably the scientists: Niels Bohr and Einstein. Though luckily for mankind, the 20th century was nice enough to send us Max Planck. His work on quantum mechanics has become “the most successful theory in the history of science. It enables physicists, chemists, and technicians to calculate and predict the outcome of a vast number of experiments and to create new and advanced technology based on the insight into the behavior of atomic objects. But it is also a theory that challenges our imagination.”(Faye) This is an amazing theory, but it also has come to “violate some fundamental principles of classical physics, principles that eventually have become a part of western common sense since the rise of the modern worldview in the Renaissance” (Faye). What does this mean to our definition of “What is Science?” What we accepted before now is almost impossible to be related to on the quantum scale. So what we accepted to be the laws and rules of the world really is only a portion of the truth. According to some, what we knew now does not apply so in their views this is no longer a science, but as Bohr and Planck disagreed, so do I with these people. These sciences will always be considered a science, a science of the times. There is something interesting about the sciences of a time that gives a clue into how that time period conducted itself. The sciences seem to explain things that are culturally relevant. In the renaissance it was to explain god’s world in the 20th century with Planck Bohr and Einstein they seem to be searching for God as Darwin was before him. Even now scientists look for answers for cultural dilemmas and unfortunately the cake is a lie.