Science Quote by Albert Einstein

Einstein’s line has the slyness of someone who knows the public wants scientists to be professional mystics. “Flight from wonder” sounds like a betrayal of awe, yet it’s actually a defense of it: discovery doesn’t kill mystery so much as relocate it. The intent is corrective. He’s pushing back on the romantic idea that science begins and ends in rapture, insisting that its real engine is dissatisfaction with being merely amazed.

The phrasing matters. “Process” foregrounds repetition and discipline, not lightning-bolt genius. “In effect” is a hedging scalpel: he’s not denying scientists feel wonder; he’s describing what their work does to wonder over time. Awe is treated as a starting condition, a kind of cognitive static you have to tune out to hear the signal. The “continual” part is the sting. Every answer demands the next unglamorous step: define, measure, simplify, test, revise. That’s the flight.

Subtext: science is an ethic of demystification, and demystification is emotionally complicated. Einstein is hinting at a trade-off: the more legible the world becomes, the less room there is for the comfortable, self-satisfied kind of amazement. But he’s also refusing the cliche that explanation makes things smaller. In Einstein’s own era - when relativity was reshaping time, space, and certainty itself - wonder wasn’t disappearing; it was being upgraded into something tougher. The childish gasp becomes adult astonishment: not “how beautiful,” but “how could this possibly be true, and what follows if it is?”