To Describe is to Undescribe

Quantum mechanics is a peculiar subject to describe to someone who has very little knowledge of mathematics since most of the contents of the subject involve 'things' that have no visual analogies to the classical physics world we live in.  This topic has been orbiting around my mind ever since being introduced to the obscure topic, which told me that these particles can only be represented and understood through the mathematics that place foundation for theory.  For me as a student, whom had nothing more than the required mathematical background, it was difficult to pry myself away from my haunting visual of particles to grow solely dependent on the mathematics. This modern physics was the first to venture off into a realm of indescribability, where the physics could not be allegorical to anything built in our sensory system.  I am currently reading a biography on the quantum physicist Paul Dirac, who being a very quiet person already, only saying the most necessary words as if it was costly to say anything more than what was required, stated this very beautiful quote below, when his mother asked him to explain to her what he works on.  The beauty of this quote much relates to the philosophies described in Taoism, where all meaning is lost if one attempts to describe it through words.

“To draw its picture is like a blind man sensing a snowflake. One touch and it’s gone.”