Re: Exorcising Spooky

Posted by DocN on September 16, 2003 at 14:38:21:

In Reply to: Exorcising Spooky posted by sol on September 16, 2003 at 07:50:28:

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. This 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 ony in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong in the ranks of devoutly relgious men.
--Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies, 1985,

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