I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research.
Quotes about religiousness (5 Quotes)
Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
They preach humanity the virtues of virtuosity and religiousness. God rewards such people by removing all the hurdles from their path.
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.
The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.