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ALBERT EINSTEIN -
1879-1955
"The religious feeling engendered by
experiencing the logical comprehensibility of profound interrelations
is of a somewhat different sort from the feeling that one usually
calls religious. It is more a feeling of awe at the scheme that
is manifested in the material universe. It does not lead us to take
the step of fashioning a god-like being in our own image-a personage
who makes demands of us and who takes an interest in us as individuals.
There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only
sheer being."
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The Cygnus Loop - Hubble Telescope '95
"The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to
whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment
and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is
impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest
wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are
intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling
... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense,
and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious
men."
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"The religious geniuses of all ages have
been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows
no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can
be no church whose central teachings are based on it."
[New York Times Magazine, November
9, 1930]
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