My friend Natelle loaned me a great book a while ago and it's only now that I have had the time to start reading it. It's a collection of essays by Albert Einstein called "Ideas and Opinions." This morning over a breakfast of delicious pancakes and coffee I found this line which I thought was a good one to mull over. It is:
To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
I like the emphasis on the searching to understand, the idea that it is the search that is important. good food for thought!
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