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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.

If We Were Bees, Ants, Or Lacedaemonian| Warriors, To Whom Personal Fear Does Not Exist And Cowardice Is The Most Shameful Thing In The World, Warring Would Go On Forever. But Luckily We Are Only Men — And Cowards.

Science Cannot Tell Us A Word About Why Music Delights Us, Of Why And How An Old Song Can Move Us To Tears.

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.

If You Cannot - In The Long Run - Tell Everyone What You Have Been Doing, Your Doing Has Been Worthless.