The 'path' Comes Into Existence Only When

The World Thus Appears As A Complicated Tissue Of Events, In Which Connections Of Different Kinds Alternate Or Overlap Or Combine And Thereby Determine The Texture Of The Whole.

The Incomplete Knowledge Of A System Must Be An Essential Part Of Every Formulation In Quantum Theory. Quantum Theoretical Laws Must Be Of A Statistical Kind. To Give An Example: We Know That The Radium Atom Emits Alpha-radiation. Quantum Theory Can Give Us An Indication Of The Probability That The Alpha-particle Will Leave The Nucleus In Unit Time, But It Cannot Predict At What Precise Point In Time The Emission Will Occur, For This Is Uncertain In Principle.

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.

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.

Where No Guiding Ideals Are Left To Point The Way, The Scale Of Values Disappears And With It The Meaning Of Our Deeds And Sufferings, And At The End Can Lie Only Negation And Despair. Religion Is Therefore The Foundation Of Ethics, And Ethics The Presupposition Of Life.