preceptions of mystery

found this quote from Einstein, i think its rather beautiful. some have tried to use it as evidence of his believe in "God" (in the sense of a monotheistic deity as per Christian, Muslim and Jewish beliefs) and taken as is it can seem that way but what he's really referring to are concepts related to the underlying laws and structures that govern our universe (hence "lofty structures"), much of which we do not (and may not ever) understand. and instead of allowing these uncertainties to get the better of us (which in the end is the root of most belief structures, ie an attempt to understand the universe), he embraces them.

"Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntary and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own." ... "The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavour in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is." Einstein's speech 'My Credo' to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin, autumn 1932, Einstein: A Life in Science, Michael White and John Gribbin, Page 262