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Einstein was openly ruled by an aesthetic scientific muse:

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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

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It is the source of all true art and science", he said.


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There is mystery in the universe, beguiling mystery,

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but it isn't capricious, whimsical, frivolous in its changeability.

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The universe is an orderly place

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and, at a deep level, regions of it behave like other regions, times behave like other times.


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There is mystery but not magic,

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strangeness beyond the wildest imagining, but no spells or witchery, no arbitrary miracles.

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The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement.

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I think that the appetite for mystery

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the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered.

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It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science,

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and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy.

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Perhaps it is this appetite that underlies the ratings success of the paranormalists.

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It's often said that people 'need' something more in their lives than just the material world.

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There is a gap that must be filled.

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People need to feel a sense of purpose.

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Well, not a BAD purpose would be to find out what is already here, in the material world,

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before concluding that you need something more.

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How much more do you want?

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Just study what is,

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and you'll find that it already is far more uplifting than anything you could imagine needing.

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You don't have to be a scientist

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-- you don't have to play the bunsen burner --

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in order to understand enough science to overtake your imagined need and fill that fancied gap.

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Science needs to be released from the lab into the culture.