There Are Things That Are So Serious

In The Strict Formulation Of The Law Of Causality—if We Know The Present, We Can Calculate The Future—it Is Not The Conclusion That Is Wrong But The Premise. On An Implication Of The Uncertainty Principle.

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.

Therefore, The Two Processes, That Of Science And That Of Art, Are Not Very Different. Both Science And Art Form In The Course Of The Centuries A Human Language By Which We Can Speak About The More Remote Parts Of Reality, And The Coherent Sets Of Concepts As Well As The Different Styles Of Art Are Different Words Or Groups Of Words In This Language.

Science No Longer Is In The Position Of Observer Of Nature, But Rather Recognizes Itself As Part Of The Interplay Between Man And Nature. The Scientific Method ... Changes And Transforms Its Object: The Procedure Can No Longer Keep Its Distance From The Object.

A Consistent Pursuit Of Classical Physics Forces A Transformation In The Very Heart Of That Physics.