¶ Man as a Function of Universe
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“We have it manifested at this little tiny point in our space travel in the great heavens. And we have Einstein, as intellect, metaphysically taking the measure of the physical and writing the most extraordinarily economical equation that has ever been written, making the most economic statement that has ever been made. I think in 100 years Einstein will be called a great poet of the 20th century. He said the most important things in the most simple way when he wrote his equation E = Mc2. We have here, then, intellect as metaphysical taking the measure and mastering the physical. We have nothing in any of our experience to suggest that this is reversible-- that energy will ever write equations of intellect. I am very confident that human beings have this very extraordinary metaphysical function in the Universe, and we find that if this is their function, then they are absolutely essential to the Universe.”
¶ Citations
- RBF ‘The Listener’ transcript by John D’nat, 26 Sep’68
