Gustaf Strömberg

From The Soul of the Universe, 1940 by Gustaf Strömberg

I am indebted to several people for help and encouragement during the preparation of this book. Since it contains much biology, and this science lies outside the field of research in which I am engaged, I was anxious to have the biological statements examined. My friend William D. Humason was kind enough to go through the first draft. Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology, kindly offered to read the biological part and made several corrections in the description of biological facts. Dr. O. L. Sposler, Professor of Botany at the University of California at Los Angeles, was kind enough to read the manuscript and made a few corrections. In the final rendering, however, several additions have been inserted after their scrutiny was made.

The manuscript has been submitted to several scientists interested in the philosophical implications of modern science. I am particularly indebted to Professor Albert Einstein for his encouragement and constructive criticism, which caused me to analyze more fully certain parts, to Sir Arthur Eddington, Dr. F. R. Moulton, Permanent Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and to the Director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, Dr. Walter S. Adams, for their interest and encouragement. My friend Edward F. Adams of the Mount Wilson Observatory has been kind enough to read the manuscript and has suggested several improvements. It is a great pleasure to express here my appreciation for his help. I am also indebted to Mr. Boris de Zirkoff of Point Loma and Dr. Karel Hujer of Prague for the great interest they have taken in this work.

After this book was written I found that Dr. John Elof Boodin, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles, in his many valuable books had made a historical and critical study of some of the problems discussed here. (Etc.)

Philadelphia : David McKay 1948, pp. xvi-xvii.

From My Faith, 1948 by Gustaf Strömberg

I believe that behind the physical world we see with our eyes and study in our microscopes and telescopes, and measure with instruments of various kinds, is another, more fundamental realm which can not be described in physical terms. In this non-physical realm lies the ultimate origin of all things, of energy, matter, organization and life, (etc).

(The American Weekly, 18 April 1948.)
per THE SOUL OF THE UNIVERSE by G. Strömberg,
Philadelphia : David McKay 1948, p. 303.