They forced on us the recognition that the fact that we were in the habit of talking a certain language and using certain concepts did not necessarily imply that there was anything in the real world to correspond to these. These things, as you know, forced us to re-consider the relations between science and common sense. What has happened to us-it is really rather major, it is so major that I think in some ways one returns to the greatest developments of the twentieth century, to the discovery of relativity, and to the whole development of atomic theory and its interpretation in terms of complementarity, for analogy. I want anyone who feels like it to ask me a question and if I can’t answer it, as will often be the case, I will just have to say so. I would like to take it as deep and serious as I know how, and then perhaps come to more immediate questions in the course of the discussion later. I think that it can only help to look a little at what our situation is-at what has happened to us-and that this must give us some honesty, some insight, which will be a source of strength in what may be the not-too-easy days ahead. I think there are issues which are quite simple and quite deep, and which involve us as a group of scientists-involve us more, perhaps than any other group in the world.
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