The Saunterer

Albert Einstein on the fundamental emotion of art and science

    It is the emotion of the mysterious. Albert Einstein:

    The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious—the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

    (Quoted from page 233 of Your Atomic Self, by Curt Stager. Thomas Dunne Books, 2014..)
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Laia Jufresa on the value of libraries

    In the May 23, 2018 issue of the Times Literary Supplement she says:

    Libraries matter for the same reason parks matter. Because to blossom, human beings need public spaces that enable play, freedom and social contact without any ties to consumption. Think about it for a moment: there aren’t that many left. All we see in the street is for sale, pushing us to measure ourselves by how much we can own instead of how much we can feel and think and imagine. A library is a contemporary haven in that sense. A place that holds a million doors into a million worlds, and they’re all at your reach. For free.

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