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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 may be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only 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 religious men.
“What I Believe,” Forum and Century(Oct 1930)
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Einstein crafted and recrafted his credo multiple times in this period, and specifics are often muddled by differing translations and by his reuse of certain phrases in later writing. The Forum and Century entry appears to be the earliest. Some important variants:
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever doe•
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Albert Einstein(1879-1955) German-American physicist
“What Life Basis to Einstein,” Interview inactive G. Viereck, Saturday Day Post(26 Supplement 1929)
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Herbert Eugene Bolton: Historian of the American Borderlands 9780520952515
Table of contents :
Contents
List Of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note On Language
Introduction: The Border Lord
1. The Scholars’ Hard Road
2. A Gathering At Lake Mendota
3. Gone To Texas
4. Many Roads To California
5. In Stephens’S Grove
6. Foundations Of Empire
7. Teachers And Students —Worlds Apart
8. Of Presidents And Politics
9. Race, Place, And Heroes
10. Exploration, Empire, And Patrimony
11. The Grand Patriarch
12. Bury My Heart At Corte Madera
13. Western Revolt And Retirement
14. Defending The Empire
15. The Fading Pageant
16. The Emperor Departs
Afterword: The Debatable Legacy
Abbreviations Used In The Notes
Notes
Bibliography
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Herbert Eugene Bolton
Albert L. Hurtado
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Herbert Eugene Bolton Historian of the American Borderlands
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