I Insist Upon The View

Quantum Physics Thus Reveals A Basic Oneness Of The Universe.

The Self Is Not So Much Linked To Its Ancestors, It Is Not So Much The Product, And Merely The Product, Of All That, But Rather, In The Strictest Sense Of The Word, The Same Thing As All That: The Strict, Direct Continuation Of It, Just As The Self Aged Fifty Is The Continuation Of The Self Aged Forty.

Bohr’s Standpoint, That A Space-time Description Is Impossible, I Reject A Limine. Physics Does Not Consist Only Of Atomic Research, Science Does Not Consist Only Of Physics, And Life Does Not Consist Only Of Science. The Aim Of Atomic Research Is To Fit Our Empirical Knowledge Concerning It Into Our Other Thinking. All Of This Other Thinking, So Far As It Concerns The Outer World, Is Active In Space And Time. If It Cannot Be Fitted Into Space And Time, Then It Fails In Its Whole Aim And One Does Not Know What Purpose It Really Serves.

No Self Is Of Itself Alone. It Has A Long Chain Of Intellectual Ancestors. The "i" Is Chained To Ancestry By Many Factors ... This Is Not Mere Allegory, But An Eternal Memory.

The Unphilosophical And Philosophical Attitudes Can Be Very Sharply Distinguished (with Scarcely Any Intermediate Forms) By The Fact That The First Accepts Everything That Happens As Regards Its General Form, And Finds Occasion For Surprise Only In That Special Content By Which Something That Happens Here Today Differs From What Happened There Yesterday; Whereas For The Second, It Is Precisely The Common Features Of All Experience, Such As Characterise Everything We Encounter, Which Are The Primary And Most Profound Occasion For Astonishment.