While surfing Einstein, I bumped into a couple o’ peculiar home videos.
Ah, …youth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvfnkOIEBVI ZZZZZZZZZ
Oh, epoch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UkSBw_Pq0Y&feature=related
There is little doubt in my mind now that the lead salesman on the cusp of early insight to the fathers of atomic catastrophe was right-on when he said,
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
Paul, the gardener, handyman & autodidact theologian in quiet contemplation, having walked Spinoza’s dog around the city block two times full circle, stopped and sat in view of the Bay Bridge intersection and read a paragraph Albert Einstein wrote in his book, The World as I See It. He read:
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 accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms—it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.”
