Language and Science

In the Einstein Infeld reading for tomorrow there is a lot of talk about language and putting things in terms of "field language".
"A new reality was created, a new concept for which there was no place in the mechanical description...it is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting point and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up... we may still use the word ether, but only to express some physical property of space. This word ether has changed its meaning many times in the development of science. At the moment it no longer stands for a medium built up of particles. Its story, by no means finished, is continued by the relativity theory." (pgs 151, 152, 153)
What I want to draw attention to is the way that Einstein and Infeld emphasize physical science as a discourse and that these realities exist for scientists and theorists in language and are brought forth for others in language. It is interesting for me to reflect on how much I consider science to be ideas brought forth only through language or how much I consider it to be just the way things are? I think that Einstein and Infeld are able to remind us how inherently philosophical science is. Any thoughts?