No branch of science is explicitly devoted to studying world views and there are probably several reasons for this. First and foremost there is so little consensus within the same discipline, that very different and generally incompatible fragments of world views exist. On the other hand, there is a certain diffidence, perhaps even a taboo, about putting these fragments of world views, often the subject of enthusiastic discussions over coffee at scientific gatherings, into the form of a text. This diffidence is very marked amongst physicists because they know from experience how quickly, and for various reasons, such an attempt is dismissed as "unscientific" and 'speculative". The world view fragment I would like to present here from the viewpoint of quantum mechanics should therefore be looked at in this light. It contains a number of aspects that are speculative and others that are directly based on recent experimental and theoretical data in quantum mechanics. Some parts are almost exclusively the result of the author's own personal beliefs.