The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the
sensation of the mystical. It is the source 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 most
primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of
true religiousness.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

[Photograph: Eliot Porter, from The Place No One Knew]