Albert Einstein

In this passage, several good points are made. He explains how those who cannot be struck with awe and amazement at something 'mystical' or inexplicable are 'as good as dead'. People who believe that science can and will explain everything, and that there is nothing left permanently beyond human understanding are truly blinded by their own egotistical arrogance. Man is humbled every day by the universe, by miracles, by life, by God. We become so concerned with ourselves that we dismiss these things as things that we can explain and understand through science and with our own minds, when the reality is that there are some things we will never and can never understand. Religion starts with the acceptance that some things are bigger than us, and more complex than we could ever grasp. It begins with the humility to realize that we are only human, and that there are forces acting infinitely beyond our understanding. Those who feel that God is something that should make sense to us, or that we can make sense out of his actions, are as ignorant and arrogant in those beliefs as the people who blindly follow the God and heavenly rules which are professed to them by their community or parents without giving it a second thought.