There Are Things That Are

If Nature Leads Us To Mathematical Forms Of Great Simplicity And Beauty - By Forms I Am Referring To Coherent Systems Of Hypothesis, Axioms, Etc. - To Forms That No One Has Previously Encountered, We Cannot Help Thinking That They Are "true," That They Reveal A Genuine Feature Of Nature... You Must Have Felt This Too: The Almost Frightening Simplicity And Wholeness Of Relationships Which Nature Suddenly Spreads Out Before Us And For Which None Of Us Was In The Least Prepared.

In General, Scientific Progress Calls For No More Than The Absorption And Elaboration Of New Ideas- And This Is A Call Most Scientists Are Happy To Heed.

What We Observe Is Not Nature Itself, But Nature Exposed To Our Method Of Questioning.

Whether We Electrons, Light Quanta, Benzol Molecules, Or Stones, We Shall Always Come Up Against These Two Characteristics, The Corpuscular And The Undular.

An Expert Is Someone Who Knows Some Of The Worst Mistakes That Can Be Made In His Subject And How To Avoid Them.