The 'path' Comes Into Existence Only When

What We Observe Is Not Nature Itself But Nature Exposed To Our Method Of Questioning. Our Scientific Work In Physics Consists In Asking Questions About Nature In The Language That We Possess And Trying To Get An Answer From Experiment By The Means That Are At Our Disposal.

The Problems Of Language Here Are Really Serious. We Wish To Speak In Some Way About The Structure Of The Atoms. But We Cannot Speak About Atoms In Ordinary Language.

The Same Organizing Forces That Have Shaped Nature In All Her Forms Are Also Responsible For The Structure Of Our Minds.

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.

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.