Einstein–Eiseley–Mystery

 

 Excerpt: Biodesign Out For A Walk, Introduction.

 “They learned that Albert Einstein and Loren Eiseley agreed that every branch of science was cloaked in mystery and that it would be their challenge and privilege to contemplate those mysteries.â€

Einstein:

 “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.â€

 

Eiseley: Excerpted from, The Immense Journey, Time/Life Reading Program.

“Professor Eiseley is one of the increasing number of contemporary scientists who insist that the mystery still exists, and that there is more to evolution than was dreamed of in the 19^th Century’s refusal to philosophize. Moreover, he makes us feel that unless we too realize this we are in danger of ceasing to be truly human.†Joseph W. Krutch.

“Eiseley is less concerned about man conquering nature than nature, in the form of God, conquering the human heart. As he has written elsewhere†‘whether we speak of a God come down to earth or a man inspired toward God and betrayed on a cross, the dream was great, and shook the world like a storm. I believe in Christ in every man who dies to contribute to a life beyond his life. I believe in Christ in all who defend the individual from the iron boot of the extending collective state…

I have been accused of wooly-mindedness for entertaining even hope for man. I can only respond that in the dim morning shadows of humanity, the inarticulate creature who first hesitantly formed the words for pity and love must have received similar guffaws around the fire. Yet some men listened, for the words survive.’

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