The World Is Given To Me Only

Whence Came I, Whither Go I? Science Cannot Tell Us A Word About Why Music Delights Us, Of Why And How An Old Song Can Move Us To Tears. Science Is Reticent Too When It Is A Question Of The Great Unity – The One Of Parmenides – Of Which We All Somehow Form Part, To Which We Belong. The Most Popular Name For It In Our Time Is God – With A Capital ‘g’. Whence Come I And Whither Go I? That Is The Great Unfathomable Question, The Same For Every One Of Us. Science Has No Answer To It.

The World Is Given To Me Only Once, Not One Existing And One Perceived. Subject And Object Are Only One.

In This Communication I Wish First To Show In The Simplest Case Of The Hydrogen Atom (nonrelativistic And Undistorted) That The Usual Rates For Quantization Can Be Replaced By Another Requirement, In Which Mention Of "whole Numbers" No Longer Occurs. Instead The Integers Occur In The Same Natural Way As The Integers Specifying The Number Of Nodes In A Vibrating String. The New Conception Can Be Generalized, And I Believe It Touches The Deepest Meaning Of The Quantum Rules.

Our Perceiving Self Is Nowhere To Be Found In The World-picture, Because It Itself Is The World-picture.

The Unphilosophical And Philosophical Attitudes Can Be Very Sharply Distinguished (with Scarcely Any Intermediate Forms) By The Fact That The First Accepts Everything That Happens As Regards Its General Form, And Finds Occasion For Surprise Only In That Special Content By Which Something That Happens Here Today Differs From What Happened There Yesterday; Whereas For The Second, It Is Precisely The Common Features Of All Experience, Such As Characterise Everything We Encounter, Which Are The Primary And Most Profound Occasion For Astonishment.