Sentences with phrase «lucid image of the world»
Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so to overcome the world of experience by striving to replace it to some extent by this image... Into this image and its formation, he places the center of gravity of his emotional life, in order to attain the peace and serenity that he can not find within the narrow confines of swirling, personal experience.
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Einstein's characterization of the scientist who wants to find a lucid and simplified image of the world is reinforced in our time by the statement of Stephen Hawking (1988) in his A Brief History of Time, when he wrote on the final page: «The eventual goal of science is to provide a single theory that describes the whole universe».