“Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.”

To at once use our capacities to question, to discern as best we can, the workings of nature, while stopping short in reverent awe at the precipice of understanding, like a child looking up in wonder at the clear night sky, is to find religion of the truest kind.  

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”

Seeing beyond knowledge is the realm of our imagination. Simple knowledge is but a tool for the imagination. It is, as far as we know, a uniquely human trait, without which human progress is not possible.

To create a new world it must first be imagined.

“The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
-Albert Einstein

If you don’t think that’s true, just try to change it.

“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
-Albert Einstein

On the shoulders of giants indeed. It requires from us our best efforts and cheerful acknowledgment.

 “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
-Albert Einstein

Whether it is science, religion, art, or philosophy, any method of perceiving reality can at best be an approximation. If it works most (some) of the time, great. But it is still just an approximation.

With certainty comes a much less interesting world. That’s the reality of it.

“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
-Albert Einstein

Technology inherits no ideology, no affiliation, no morality. It is the domain of every human inclination, and merely amplifies whatever is applied to it.

Use with caution.