The scientist is possessed by a sense of universal causation… His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection… It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.

Like many great thinkers before him – Socrates being perhaps the most famous example – Einstein realized that the more questions he and humanity answered, the more new questions arose. Essentially, the more we know, the more we understand how little we know.

1 Views

Comments (0)

Log in to post a comment.