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Our Mind, By Virtue Of A Certain Finite, Limited Capability, Is By No Means Capable Of Putting A Question To Nature That Permits A Continuous Series Of Answers. The Observations, The Individual Results Of Measurements, Are The Answers Of Nature To Our Discontinuous Questioning.

It Seems Plain And Self-evident, Yet It Needs To Be Said: The Isolated Knowledge Obtained By A Group Of Specialists In A Narrow Field Has In Itself No Value Whatsoever, But Only In Its Synthesis With All The Rest Of Knowledge And Only Inasmuch As It Really Contributes In This Synthesis Toward Answering The Demand, "who Are We?"

I Belong To Those Theoreticians Who Know By Direct Observation What It Means To Make A Measurement. Methinks It Were Better If There Were More Of Them.

The Material World Has Only Been Constructed At The Price Of Taking The Self, That Is, Mind, Out Of It, Removing It; Mind Is Not Part Of It...

From All We Have Learnt About The Structure Of Living Matter, We Must Be Prepared To Find It Working In A Manner That Cannot Be Reduced To The Ordinary Laws Of Physics. And That Not On The Ground That There Is Any 'new Force' Or What Not, Directing The Behaviour Of The Single Atoms Within A Living Organism, But Because The Construction Is Different From Anything We Have Yet Tested In The Physical Laboratory.