True, but he didn’t say there were only two rational ways of looking at the world.
I don’t think the interpretation you gave is what he meant, anyway. Based on his writings about his own religious beliefs, Einstein would almost certainly have categorized himself as being one who saw everything as miraculous. Just because we accept that something is real and follows the same rules as all other known real things doesn’t mean we can’t have a sense of wonder over it.
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True, but he didn’t say there were only two rational ways of looking at the world.
I don’t think the interpretation you gave is what he meant, anyway. Based on his writings about his own religious beliefs, Einstein would almost certainly have categorized himself as being one who saw everything as miraculous. Just because we accept that something is real and follows the same rules as all other known real things doesn’t mean we can’t have a sense of wonder over it.