| William Russell White - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1951 - 1296 pages
...religion is lame, and religion blind without science." ". . . (mv religious feeling) takes the form of rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of superiority that, compared with it, all systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly... | |
| R.B. McKenzie - Business & Economics - 1982 - 146 pages
...profoundly religious people. He added elsewhere that the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law,...human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. This principle is the guiding principle of his life and work, insofar as he succeeds in keeping himself... | |
| Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Mathematics - 1987 - 324 pages
...likely to agree with Einstein in his description of what he called his religious feeling as one of rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law,...human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection... The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and... | |
| John F. Haught - Religion - 1990 - 286 pages
...aspect of things than it is for many other scientists and philosophers. In his words, religion is a "rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law,...human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection." And, he continues, "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. . . . Whoever does... | |
| Stewart Elliott Guthrie - Religion - 1995 - 335 pages
...and powerful being."101 Einstein wrote that the scientist's "religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law,...acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."102 Such extrapolations from apparent design or order may be spontaneous, not necessarily... | |
| William Gerber - Philosophy - 1994 - 206 pages
...Referring to the religious scientist, Einstein stated: 231 "His religious feeling takes the form of rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law...human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection." Edman's View. Irwin Edman (United States, 18961954) wrote in prose and verse on the philosophy of religion... | |
| William Gerber - God - 1995 - 166 pages
...namely, the statement that, if a scientist is religious, (3l) His religious feeling takes the form of rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law...human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. This is almost a definition of God as a surpassingly intelligent being. A different definition was... | |
| Jacques Baudot, Gilbert T. Bergquist - 1998 - 121 pages
...other metaphysical Eastern philosophies. This response, according to Einstein 4_/ "takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law,...human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of life and work, in so far as individuals succeed in keeping... | |
| Arne A. Wyller - Religion - 1996 - 288 pages
...inextricable web of logical mathematical propositions. Einstein himself is reputed to have called his God "an intelligence of such superiority that compared...human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection" (Einstein 1935). And when confronted by a rabbi with the question "Do you believe in God?" Einstein... | |
| J. C. Polkinghorne - Religion - 1996 - 226 pages
...stance among scientists. Einstein wrote that The scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law,...intelligence of such superiority that compared with it, all systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.'43 God seems... | |
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