When It Comes To Atoms, Language Can

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.'

Truth Is Something That We Can Attempt To Doubt, And Then Perhaps, After Much Exertion, Discover That Part Of The Doubt Is Not Justified.

There Is No Hope For Any Speculation That Does Not Look Absurd At First Glance.

An Independant Reality In The Ordinary Physical Sense Can Neither Be Ascribed To The Phenomenon Nor To The Agencies Of Observation.