For Eternally And Always There Is Only

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?"

The Plurality That We Perceive Is Only An Appearance; It Is Not Real. Vedantic Philosophy... Has Sought To Clarify It By A Number Of Analogies, One Of The Most Attractive Being The Many-faceted Crystal Which, While Showing Hundreds Of Little Pictures Of What Is In Reality A Single Existent Object, Does Not Really Multiply That Object.

The Verbal Interpretation, On The Other Hand, I.e. The Metaphysics Of Quantum Physics, Is On Far Less Solid Ground. In Fact, In More Than Forty Years Physicists Have Not Been Able To Provide A Clear Metaphysical Model.

I Am Very Astonished That The Scientific Picture Of The Real World Around Me Is Deficient. It Gives A Lot Of Factual Information, Puts All Our Experience In A Magnificently Consistent Order, But It Is Ghastly Silent About All And Sundry That Is Really Near To Our Heart, That Really Matters To Us. It Cannot Tell Us A Word About Red And Blue, Bitter And Sweet, Physical Pain And Physical Delight; It Knows Nothing Of Beautiful And Ugly, Good Or Bad, God And Eternity.

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.