of mistery

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion, which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of mystery- even if mixed with fear- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only acessible to our reason in their most elementary forms- it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude.

Albert Einstein - The world as i see it
from book: Face Time by Patrick de Wilde