[not2too]

I know you've all probably heard this a million times already, but I'm going to say it again anyhow...each and every one of us...scientist...philosopher...religious zealot...mathematician, etc. must have a world view (belief system) in order to have a world to view. That's the way we're wired. The scientific narrative of the modern age is as mythopoetic a world view (belief system - B.S. to many) as any novelist's, and the great ones (scientists) embrace it.

Albert Einstein said:

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

All the best,
not2too