The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Here…

Albert Einstein
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The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. ✨ Mein Weltbild (My World-view). Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.
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