The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

He to whom this emotion is a stranger who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness.

In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man.

from a quote by Walter Isaacson in Time Magazine, April 2007

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Gender-inclusive version:

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

The person to whom this emotion is a stranger who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness.

In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man.

from a quote by Walter Isaacson in Time Magazine, April 2007