The table before which we sit may be,
as the scientist maintains, composed of dancing atoms, but it does not reveal
itself to us as anything of the kind, and it is not with dancing atoms but a
solid and motionless object that we live. So remote is this "real" table—and most of the other "realities" with which science deals—that it cannot be discussed in terms which have any human value, and though it may receive out purely intellectual credence it cannot be woven into the pattern of life as it is led, in contradistinction to life as we attempt to think about it. Vibrations in the either are so totally unlike, let us say, the color purple that the gulf between them cannot be bridged, and they are, to all intents and purposes, not one but two separate things of which the second and less "real" must be the most significant for A. a solid motionless object B. certain characteristic vibrations in "ether" C. a form fixed in space and time D. a mass of atoms on motion 我来回答: 提交
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