The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
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This version was given in Einstein: A Biography (1954) by Antonina Vallentin, p. 24, and widely quoted afterwards. Vallentin cites "Physics and Reality" in Journal of the Franklin Institute (March 1936), and is possibly giving a variant translation as with Holton.Albert Einstein
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.
Max Frisch
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
Martin Buber
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility ... The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
Kenneth Tynan
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