Good stuff
“Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, 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.”
Albert Einstein
April 9th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Yeh. I’m currently reading the Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, and I just passed the chapter about the different books that were blacklisted and burned. Anything by Einstein he despised. From that passage, I can see why a person such as he wouldn’t “get it.”
Good stuff, indeed.