"We are suspended in language."

"The electron is an elementary particle, but it is not a 'thing' in the usual sense of the word."

"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature."

"The atom is a very small object, and the forces that bind it together are very strong."

"When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it."