Einstein was asked, “Do you believe in the God of Spinoza.”

To which he replied:

“I can’t answer with a simple yes or no. I’m not an atheist and I don’t think I call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. 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 arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations….” – Einstein, A Life, Dennis Brian, Page 186

I love the beauty and simplicity of this–and especially the phrase–“a universe marvelously arranged,” how better to describe the sublime beauty beyond our understanding.