Predition Is Risky, Especially Of The Future.

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

The Opposite Of A Fact Is Falsehood, But The Opposite Of One Profound Truth May Very Well Be Another Profound Truth.

Physics Is To Be Regarded Not So Much As The Study Of Something A Priori Given, But Rather As The Development Of Methods Of Ordering And Surveying Human Experience. In This Respect Our Task Must Be To Account For Such Experience In A Manner Independent Of Individual Subjective Judgement And Therefore Objective In The Sense That It Can Be Unambiguously Communicated In Ordinary Human Language.

A Visitor To Niels Bohr's Country Cottage, Noticing A Horseshoe Hanging On The Wall, Teasing The Eminent Scientist About This Ancient Superstition. "can It Be True That You, Of All People, Believe It Will Bring You Luck?' 'of Course Not,' Replied Bohr, 'but I Understand It Brings You Luck Whether You Believe It Or Not.'

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.