Where The World Ceases To Be The Stage For Personal Hopes And Desires, Where We, As Free Beings, Behold It In Wonder, To Question And To Contemplate, There We Enter The Realm Of Art And Of Science.

Where The World Ceases To Be The Stage For Personal Hopes And Desires, Where We, As Free Beings, Behold It In Wonder, To Question And To Contemplate, There We Enter The Realm Of Art And Of Science.

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Where the world ceases to be the stage for personal hopes and desires,
where we, as free beings, behold it in wonder, to question and to contemplate,
there we enter the realm of Art and of Science.
If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of
logic, we are doing science. If we show it in forms whose interrelationships
are not accessible to our conscious thought but are intuitively recognized as
meaningful, we are doing art. Common to both is the devotion to something
beyond the personal, removed from the arbitrary.
-- Albert Einstein

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