Not Only Is The Universe

The Positivists Have A Simple Solution: The World Must Be Divided Into That Which We Can Say Clearly And The Rest, Which We Had Better Pass Over In Silence. But Can Anyone Conceive Of A More Pointless Philosophy, Seeing That What We Can Say Clearly Amounts To Next To Nothing? If We Omitted All That Is Unclear, We Would Probably Be Left Completely Uninteresting And Trivial Tautologies.

You May Object That By Speaking Of Simplicity And Beauty I Am Introducing Aesthetic Criteria Of Truth, And I Frankly Admit That I Am Strongly Attracted By The Simplicity And Beauty Of Mathematical Schemes Which Nature Presents Us. You Must Have Felt This Too: The Almost Frightening Simplicity And Wholeness Of The Relationship, Which Nature Suddenly Spreads Out Before Us.

The Solution Of The Difficulty Is That The Two Mental Pictures Which Experiment Lead Us To Form - The One Of The Particles, The Other Of The Waves - Are Both Incomplete And Have Only The Validity Of Analogies Which Are Accurate Only In Limiting Cases.

After The Conversations About Indian Philosophy, Some Of The Ideas Of Quantum Physics That Had Seemed So Crazy Suddenly Made Much More Sense.

Science Clears The Fields On Which Technology Can Build.