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I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.

Albert Einstein
Real, Being True, Pure
"Einstein's Philosophy of Science" by Don A. Howard, quoting "On the Method of Theoretical Physics", The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford, June 10, 1933, plato.stanford.edu. February 11, 2004.
I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.