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The Great Extension Of Our Experience In Recent Years Has Brought Light To The Insufficiency Of Our Simple Mechanical Conceptions And, As A Consequence, Has Shaken The Foundation On Which The Customary Interpretation Of Observation Was Based.

It Is Wrong To Think That The Task Of Physics Is To Find Out How Nature Is. Physics Concerns What We Say About Nature.

We Depend On Our Words... Our Task Is To Communicate Experience And Ideas To Others. We Must Strive Continually To Extend The Scope Of Our Description, But In Such A Way That Our Messages Do Not Thereby Lose Their Objective Or Unambiguous Character... We Are Suspended In Language In Such A Way That We Cannot Say What Is Up And What Is Down. The Word "reality" Is Also A Word, A Word Which We Must Learn To Use Correctly.

When It Comes To Atoms, Language Can Be Used Only As In Poetry. The Poet, Too, Is Not Nearly So Concerned With Describing Facts As With Creating Images And Establishing Mental Connections.

Truth Is Something That We Can Attempt To Doubt, And Then Perhaps, After Much Exertion, Discover That Part Of The Doubt Is Not Justified.