“An intelligence of such superiority”

The scientist’s religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, in comparison with it, all the systematic thinking of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.”

Einstein, from Stephen Mitchell’s translation of Tao Te Ching

1 Comment

  1. Wonderful, what a spectacular quote. That is my sort of god, my sort of reality. Who needs the nonsence of Orginal Sin and two thousand years of Christian make believe when it is all out there in plain sight.

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