The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead . . . . That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible Universe forms my idea of God - Albert Einstein
(from Phillip Frank Einstein: His Life and Times (1947) Ch.12, sec.5)
I wonder if anyone has developed the ties between mysticism and Einstein's theories and thoughts? Einstein has also said, "Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory." And my favorite quote is this one: "The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one."
It seems that even Albert Einstein was on the mystical track. Isn't it time we have a conversation and look to a new vision on the relationship between science and mysticism?
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