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Above, a sketchbook entry. I also did a couple of versions in paint which I put on Facebook for today’s “A Painting a Day Challenge.” Check them out\u00a0her<\/a>e.<\/h6>\nThat was Einstein’s wide reputation then, when he was alive, and it persists to this day. I don’t think it was necessarily a concept Einstein had about himself. It seems he was a possessor of appropriate humility. A humility that was sourced in his larger-than-most appreciation of the grandeur of all things and its exquisite order. And for his ability to apprehend it he gave less credit to his intellect than to his imagination. That was the attribute he credited most.<\/p>\n
He once said of his quest he wanted to know how God created the universe. Just the question reveals a good deal of imagination.<\/p>\n
And he kept wondering.<\/p>\n
Describing himself to a friend he said that he merely kept thinking about the things children wonder at but eventually move beyond.<\/p>\n
Does that sound familiar? We ask big questions when we’re young, then we grow up; we get busy, consumed with the more limited things we (think we) can understand, and our wonder diminishes.<\/p>\n
In other words, we act like grown-ups.<\/p>\n
But something’s lost in the process. And needlessly. We may not have the brains of Einstein, nor the call on our lives to pursue a unified theory of everything, but we need not lose our curiosity, our sense of awe of all things near and far.<\/p>\n
In his book, Living Philosophies<\/em>, he said:<\/p>\n“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead \u2014his eyes are closed.”<\/p>\n
I’ll take that as good counsel, and that from whom my father told me was the smartest man in the world.<\/p>\n
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead \u2014his eyes are closed.”<\/p>\n
I’ll take that as good counsel, and that from whom my father told me was the smartest man in the world.<\/p>\n
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