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"philosophic awareness of the significance of the whole human experience. There will be a rediscovery of what Einstein described in 1930, in an article on the ‘cosmic religious sense’-- the intellectual integrity of the Universe and an orderliness that was manifestly a priori to man.
"We are going to have an increasing number of human beings as scientists and philosophers thinking about the total significance of human experience and realizing that there is an intellect far greater and far more powerful than that of man-- and anticipatory of the whole trend of his development. An era of extraordinary integrity might ensue.
“This would be for me, the most important and exciting aspect of all the trend curves-- that in A.D. 2000, to a marked extent, the integrity of humanity will be of an unbelievably high order. What one human being says to another regarding what he thinks or what he has observed, will be reliable. There will be play-acting still, but it will very clearly be play-acting. In looking forward to the year 2000 it is not the ‘Buck Rogers’ details which are important but whether the world will be a good place for our children and grandchildren. In the past,”
