The world as i see it

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…all of human thinking and ordering are only an insignificant reflection, compared to them." Thank you. I included the actual Einstein quote, which is taken from his book The World as I See It , in my other reply: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462856 Here it is, again: But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined as the past. There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. The quoted text appears in Einstein's book immediately after the paragraph in which Einstein states t…

…ing of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. This page http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/einstein_religion.html says the quote is from: Albert Einstein, The World as I See It, Secaucus, New Jersey: The Citadel Press, 1999, pp. 24-29. That page includes the book's preceding 11 paragraphs, in which Einstein states that belief in God is naive and childish.