Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readMay 4, 2023

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Yes, but Siegel didn't really do that. He researched deeper into the quote to find the full quote for the context but he did not really dig into the full body of other Einstein quotes to provide true critical thinking in his essay. I commented to Siegel, who does not seem to engage with his readers:

"I also think the quote you discuss can be better understood in conjunction with this one from him. 'The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.'

I wrote an essay not long ago seeking to 'marry' science, spirituality (not religion) and philosophy as three pillars in the search for truth. Visually view them as three sides of a triangle, or better yet, three dimensionally as a pyramid.

'I see the shorter base of the golden-ratio-isosceles-triangle representing science and the other two equal-length sides representing philosophy and spirituality, as I think that we need to allocate more force to philosophy and spirituality to counterbalance the favored discipline of science.

I have also thought about a pyramid constructed of four equilateral triangles and then the question becomes which discipline gets represented twice in the square interdependent foundation of that pyramid? I leave that decision up to each reader.'"

The quotes in my comment to Siegel are from my Ménage à Trois Between Science, Spirituality and Philosophy, They should have a permanent and mutually satisfying interdependent polyamorous relationship https://medium.com/p/a634f5446364

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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