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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.

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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.

It Is Probably True Quite Generally That In The History Of Human Thinking The Most Fruitful Developments Frequently Take Place At Those Points Where Two Different Lines Of Thought Meet. These Lines May Have Their Roots In Quite Different Parts Of Human Nature, In Different Times Or Different Cultural Environments Or Different Religious Traditions: Hence If They Actually Meet, That Is, If They Are At Least So Much Related To Each Other That A Real Interaction Can Take Place, Then One May Hope That New And Interesting Developments May Follow.

Quantum Theory Provides Us With A Striking Illustration Of The Fact That We Can Fully Understand A Connection Though We Can Only Speak Of It In Images And Parables.