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"For we are often told that the nature of God is a mystery which transcends the human understanding. But to say that something transcends human understanding is to say that it is unintelligible. But if one allows that it is impossible for to define God in intelligible terms, then one is allowing that it is impossible for a sentence both to be significant and to be about God."

"The fact that it has recently become fashionable for physicists themselves to be sympathetic towards religion is a point in favour of this hypothesis. For this sympathy towards religion marks the physicists' own lack of confidence in the validity of their hyptheses, which is a reaction on their part from the anti-religious dogmatism of 19th century scientists (..)"

"(..)we cannot refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it.(..)But fromthe fact that we happen to employ a single word to refer to a thing,(..)it does not by any means follow that that the thing itself is a 'simple entity', or that it cannot be defined by the totality of its appearances."