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I Believe That Ideas Such As Absolute Certitude, Absolute Exactness, Final Truth, Etc. Are Figments Of The Imagination Which Should Not Be Admissible In Any Field Of Science... This Loosening Of Thinking Seems To Me To Be The Greatest Blessing Which Modern Science Has Given To Us. For The Belief In A Single Truth And In Being The Possessor Thereof Is The Root Cause Of All Evil In The World.

If Alpha [the Fine-structure Constant] Were Bigger Than It Really Is, We Should Not Be Able To Distinguish Matter From Ether [the Vacuum, Nothingness], And Our Task To Disentangle The Natural Laws Would Be Hopelessly Difficult. The Fact However That Alpha Has Just Its Value 1/137 Is Certainly No Chance But Itself A Law Of Nature. It Is Clear That The Explanation Of This Number Must Be The Central Problem Of Natural Philosophy.

The Belief That There Is Only One Truth And That Oneself Is In Possession Of It Seems To Me The Deepest Root Of All Evil That Is In The World.

The Problem Of Physics Is How The Actual Phenomena, As Observed With The Help Of Our Sense Organs Aided By Instruments, Can Be Reduced To Simple Notions Which Are Suited For Precise Measurement And Used Of The Formulation Of Quantitative Laws. Experiment And Theory In Physics

Physics As We Know It Will Be Over In Six Months.