Human nature always has tried to form for itself a simple and synoptic image of the surrounding world. In doing this it tries to construct a picture … - Albert Einstein

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Human nature always has tried to form for itself a simple and synoptic image of the surrounding world. In doing this it tries to construct a picture which will give some sort of tangible expression to what the human mind sees in nature. That is what the poet does, and the painter, and the speculative philosopher and the natural philosopher, each in his own way.