It Is Probably True Quite Generally That

The Existing Scientific Concepts Cover Always Only A Very Limited Part Of Reality, And The Other Part That Has Not Yet Been Understood Is Infinite.

Quantum Theory Provides Us With A Striking Illustration Of The Fact That We Can Fully Understand A Connection Though We Can Only Speak Of It In Images And Parables.

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.

It Is Probably True Quite Generally That In The History Of Human Thinking The Most Fruitful Developments Frequently Take Place At Those Points Where Two Different Lines Of Thought Meet. These Lines May Have Their Roots In Quite Different Parts Of Human Nature, In Different Times Or Different Cultural Environments Or Different Religious Traditions: Hence If They Actually Meet, That Is, If They Are At Least So Much Related To Each Other That A Real Interaction Can Take Place, Then One May Hope That New And Interesting Developments May Follow.

Science No Longer Is In The Position Of Observer Of Nature, But Rather Recognizes Itself As Part Of The Interplay Between Man And Nature. The Scientific Method ... Changes And Transforms Its Object: The Procedure Can No Longer Keep Its Distance From The Object.