In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
Interpretation
Art and science play a crucial role in inspiring and maintaining a sense of wonder in individuals.
In this quote, Albert Einstein emphasizes the vital role that both art and science play in awakening feelings of curiosity and wonder in people. He suggests that these disciplines are not just about knowledge or aesthetics; instead, they serve the important function of inspiring individuals to appreciate beauty and engage with the world around them in a meaningful way.
In practice
You could use this quote in an art class to inspire students about the importance of their creative expression.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.
Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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