Some Subjects Are So Serious

In Physics We Deal With States Of Affairs Much Simpler Than Those Of Psychology And Yet We Again And Again Learn That Our Task Is Not To Investigate The Essence Of Things-we Do Not At All Know What This Would Mean&mash;but To Develop Those Concepts That Allow Us To Speak With Each Other About The Events Of Nature In A Fruitful Manner.

The Measurement We Get When We Measure Something Is Not A Property Of The Thing Measured.

It Is Difficult To Predict, Especially The Future.

Our Task Is Not To Penetrate The Essence Of Things, The Meaning Of Which We Do Not Know Anyway, But Rather To Develop Concepts Which Allow Us To Talk In A Productive Way About Phenomena In Nature

We Depend On Our Words... Our Task Is To Communicate Experience And Ideas To Others. We Must Strive Continually To Extend The Scope Of Our Description, But In Such A Way That Our Messages Do Not Thereby Lose Their Objective Or Unambiguous Character... We Are Suspended In Language In Such A Way That We Cannot Say What Is Up And What Is Down. The Word "reality" Is Also A Word, A Word Which We Must Learn To Use Correctly.