“The basis of all scientific work is the conviction that the world is an ordered and comprehensive entity, which is a religious sentiment. My religious feeling is a humble amazement at the order revealed in the small patch of reality to which our feeble intelligence is equal.”
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A source trail connects this quotation to Albert Einstein and On Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms, but the exact English wording has not been confirmed in a primary text. The attribution is therefore probable rather than definitive.
Likely origin: On Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms
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