The 'path' Comes Into Existence Only When

I Believe That The Existence Of The Classical "path" Can Be Pregnantly Formulated As Follows: The "path" Comes Into Existence Only When We Observe It.

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.

You May Object That By Speaking Of Simplicity And Beauty I Am Introducing Aesthetic Criteria Of Truth, And I Frankly Admit That I Am Strongly Attracted By The Simplicity And Beauty Of Mathematical Schemes Which Nature Presents Us. You Must Have Felt This Too: The Almost Frightening Simplicity And Wholeness Of The Relationship, Which Nature Suddenly Spreads Out Before Us.

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

A Consistent Pursuit Of Classical Physics Forces A Transformation In The Very Heart Of That Physics.