I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.

e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual sense of the word because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively by an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar religious as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insuffiency of the human mind to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature." It is this consciousness and humility I miss in the Freethinker mentality. Sincerely yours, Albert Einstein.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.