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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no lo
by catawbasam 7y ago
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.” -- Albert Einstein
- Retra 7y agoCurious that he's not famous for saying that. It's almost like his actual physics were more relevant than his poetic reflections.
- samstave 7y agoI find it abhorrent that people cannot place into the same realm physics with 'poetic reflections' Tiring is the limiting of mind and creativity such that one thinks that science and reflection are not, intrinsically, the same thing.
- Retra 7y agoIf they are the same thing, why prefer Einstein to Chopra? Why quote Einstein's fluff, rather than his science? Why shouldn't we give samstave a Nobel Prize for his poem?