There Are Things That Are

Whenever We Proceed From The Known To The Unkown We May Hope To Understand, But We May Have To Learn At The Same Time A New Meaning Of The Word 'understanding'

It Was About Three O'clock At Night When The Final Result Of The Calculation [which Gave Birth To Quantum Mechanics] Lay Before Me ... At First I Was Deeply Shaken ... I Was So Excited That I Could Not Think Of Sleep. So I Left The House ... And Awaited The Sunrise On Top Of A Rock.

Both Matter And Radiation Possess A Remarkable Duality Of Character, As They Sometimes Exhibit The Properties Of Waves, At Other Times Those Of Particles. Now It Is Obvious That A Thing Cannot Be A Form Of Wave Motion And Composed Of Particles At The Same Time - The Two Concepts Are Too Different

The Conception Of Objective Reality ... Has Thus Evaporated ... Into The Transparent Clarity Of Mathematics That Represents No Longer The Behavior Of Particles But Rather Our Knowledge Of This Behavior.

[t]he Atoms Or Elementary Particles Themselves Are Not Real; They Form A World Of Potentialities Or Possibilities Rather Than One Of Things Or Facts.