"We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We constantly have to be aware of the fact that we are suspended in language."

"We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to make progress in our understanding of the universe must also be an attempt to perfect our language."

"The history of science is full of examples of how new ideas have been met with resistance, only to be accepted later."

"If we would understand the atom, we must be able to describe it in its totality, and not merely in its parts."

"The very nature of our subject, quantum physics, forces us to realize that we are suspended in language."