Lovely and mysterious photo shows tender blue sky with crescent moon and crescent Venus.
(Thanks to Tingilinde for the link! )
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science…
It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man…”
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1 Betsy Devine: Now with even more funny ha-ha and peculiar » Nobel thanks Fert and Grünberg for my iPod // Oct 9, 2007 at 8:07 am
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