[MD] Einstein in Time

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:


> I'll just close this post with a comment Einstein made to clarify the one I
> opened this post with.
> 
> "It concluded with an explanation of what he meant when he called himself
> religious: "The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It
> is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and
> science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and
> stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that
> behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds
> cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is
> religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious
> man.""
> 
> Dynamic Quality?

Ah, it does my heart good to find such an eminent individual referring so often
to beauty as the key to cosmic understanding. Thanks for the quote, Arlo.



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