¶ Einstein: Cosmic Religious Sense (3)
← Einstein: Cosmic Religious Sense (2) | Einstein: Cosmic Religious Sense →
Index Entry
Einstein: Cosmic Religious Sense:
“extraordinary faith in the orderliness of Universe must have inspired Kepler to spend the nights of his lifetime alone with the stars.”
"Scientists, having developed double names for their overlapping work (biochemistry, biophysics, etc.), are now finding their total field interconnected and unitary. This is a general trend of science. And so many scientists are now being educated that it may be forecasted that within the next half-century not only science but much of educated society will have come naturally through its own explorations and experiences to discover the comprehensive order of the Universe. Thus they will inadvertently develop a regeneratively inspiring faith in the order and integrity of the Universe.
“And because the complexities of this Universe are only intellectually comprehensible, recognition of an intellect greater than and anticipatory to our own intellects is inexorably emergent in the integrating totality of scientific exploration. This means the personal, first-hand discovery by increasing numbers of humanity of nonanthropomorphic god, the great intellectual-integrity of universal evolution.”
¶ Citations
- THE PROSPECT FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 19 Sep’64
