Science Clears The Fields On Which Technology

Modern Physics Has Changed Nothing In The Great Classical Disciplines Of, For Instance, Mechanics, Optics, And Heat. Only The Conception Of Hitherto Unexplored Regions, Formed Prematurely From A Knowledge Of Only Certain Parts Of The World, Has Undergone A Decisive Transformation. This Conception, However, Is Always Decisive For The Future Course Of Research.

The Positivists Have A Simple Solution: The World Must Be Divided Into That Which We Can Say Clearly And The Rest, Which We Had Better Pass Over In Silence. But Can Anyone Conceive Of A More Pointless Philosophy, Seeing That What We Can Say Clearly Amounts To Next To Nothing? If We Omitted All That Is Unclear, We Would Probably Be Left Completely Uninteresting And Trivial Tautologies.

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.

Whenever We Proceed From The Known To The Unkown We May Hope To Understand, But We May Have To Learn At The Same Time A New Meaning Of The Word 'understanding'

Both Matter And Radiation Possess A Remarkable Duality Of Character, As They Sometimes Exhibit The Properties Of Waves, At Other Times Those Of Particles. Now It Is Obvious That A Thing Cannot Be A Form Of Wave Motion And Composed Of Particles At The Same Time - The Two Concepts Are Too Different