The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. The…

Albert Einstein
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The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap ✨ Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man. Book by William Hermanns, 1983.
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