Empathy Is Patiently And Sincerely Seeing The

Empathy Is Patiently And Sincerely Seeing The World Through The Other Person's Eyes. It Is Not Learned In School; It Is Cultivated Over A Lifetime.

To Be Sure, The Doctrine Of A Personal God Interfering With Natural Events Could Never Be Refuted, In The Real Sense, By Science, For This Doctrine Can Always Take Refuge In Those Domains In Which Scientific Knowledge Has Not Yet Been Able To Set Foot.

But In Physics I Soon Learned To Scent Out The Paths That Led To The Depths, And To Disregard Everything Else, All The Many Things That Clutter Up The Mind, And Divert It From The Essential. The Hitch In This Was, Of Course, The Fact That One Had To Cram All This Stuff Into One's Mind For The Examination, Whether One Liked It Or Not.

One Must Console Oneself With The Thought That Time Has A Sieve Through Which Most Of These Important Things Run Into The Ocean Of Oblivion And What Remains After This Selection Is Often Still Trite And Bad.

It Was, Of Course, A Lie What You Read About My Religious Convictions, A Lie Which Is Being Systematically Repeated. I Do Not Believe In A Personal God And I Have Never Denied This But Have Expressed It Clearly. If Something Is In Me Which Can Be Called Religious Then It Is The Unbounded Admiration For The Structure Of The World So Far As Our Science Can Reveal It.