{"id":574,"date":"2009-06-09T12:50:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T12:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2009-06-09T12:50:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T12:50:55","slug":"were-einstiens-equations-in-his-brain-or-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/were-einstiens-equations-in-his-brain-or-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"Were Einstiens&#8217; equations in his brain or outside ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true 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 primitive forms &#8211; this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. ( Albert Einstein &#8211; The Merging of Spirit and Science) &#8212; &#8221;<br \/>\nThank you manav, for sharing this. It&#8217;s beautifully put by a person who&#8217;s brain is under constant study by scientists all over the world. But maybe Einstein accessed his equations from a source much higher then his own individuality, his own brain ?  Is creativity the ability to access a source of universal consciousness ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. 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