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\u201cI\u2019m not an atheist, and I don\u2019t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the books but doesn\u2019t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013Albert Einstein<\/p>\n
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