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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The mysterious, the speaker claims, is the finest experience available, and it feeds both real art and real science. Someone who no longer stops to wonder or feels awe is, in this view, effectively lifeless, as though walking around with eyes shut to everything around them.
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