Not Only Is The Universe Stranger Than

The Exact Sciences Also Start From The Assumption That In The End It Will Always Be Possible To Understand Nature, Even In Every New Field Of Experience, But That We May Make No A Priori Assumptions About The Meaning Of The Word Understand.

I Think That Modern Physics Has Definitely Decided In Favor Of Plato. In Fact The Smallest Units Of Matter Are Not Physical Objects In The Ordinary Sense; They Are Forms, Ideas Which Can Be Expressed Unambiguously Only In Mathematical Language.

Every Experiment Destroys Some Of The Knowledge Of The System Which Was Obtained By Previous Experiments.

There Are Things That Are So Serious That You Can Only Joke About Them.

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.