"I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe." or sometimes quoted as "God does not play dice with the universe."
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
"I want to know God's thoughts,..... the rest are details.."
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the
objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own
-- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.
Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of
his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear
or ridiculous egotisms."
[Albert Einstein, obituary in New York Times, 19 April 1955]
"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism...."
"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his
creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in
ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an
individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls,
from fear or ab surd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am
satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the
awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the
existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend
a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests
itself in nature."
[Albert Einstein,_The World as I See It_]
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
"The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspir ations and valuations. If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. ... it is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any otherway."
"Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the i ndividual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man."
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on
sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious
basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had
to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after
death."
[Albert Einstein, "Religion and Science", New York
Times Magazine, 9 November 1930]
"The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and comb inations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning."
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my
religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically
repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never
denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me
which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration
for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal
it."
[Albert Einstein, 1954, from "Albert Einstein: The Human
Side", edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton
University Press]
"I am convinced that some political and social activities
and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and
even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere.
I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time
when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious
threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any
attempt to organize peace on this planet."
[ letter, 1954]
"Scientific research is based on the idea that everything
that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore
this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research
scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be
influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a
Supernatural Being."
[Albert Einstein, 1936, responding to a child who wrote and asked
if scientists pray. Source: "Albert Einstein: The Human
Side", Edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann]
"I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly
influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in
judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in
spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain
extent, b een placed in doubt by modern science. [He was speaking
of Quantum Mechanics and the breaking down of determinism.] My
religiosity consists in a humble admiratation of the infinitely
superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with
our we ak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of
reality. Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not
for God."
[Albert Einstein, from "Albert Einstein: The Human
Side", edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton
University Press]
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
"The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men."
"The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of
all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no
room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a
different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule
of div ine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.
To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with the
natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by
science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those
domains in wh ich scientific knowledge has not yet been able to
set foot. But I am persuaded that such behaviour on the part of
the representatives of religion would not only be unworthy but
also fatal. For a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not
in clear light but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its
effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress ....
If it is one of the goals of religions to liberate maknind as far
as possible from the bondage of egocentric cravings, desires, and
fears, s cientific reasoning can aid religion in another sense.
Although it is true that it is the goal of science to discover
(the) rules which permit the association and foretelling of
facts, this is not its only aim. It also seeks to reduce the
connections disc overed to the smallest possible number of
mutually independent conceptual elements. It is in this striving
after the rational unification of the manifold that it encounters
its greatest successes, even though it is precisely this attempt
which causes it t o run the greatest risk of falling a prey to
illusion. But whoever has undergone the intense experience of
successful advances made in this domain, is moved by the profound
reverence for the rationality made manifest in existence. By way
of the understand ing he achieves a far reaching emancipation
from the shackles of personal hopes and desires, and thereby
attains that humble attitude of mind toward the grandeur of
reason, incarnate in existence, and which, in its profoundest
depths, is inaccessible to m an. This attitude, however, appears
to me to be religious in the highest sense of the word. And so it
seems to me that science not only purifies the religious imulse
of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contibutes to a
religious spiritualisation of our understanding of life."
[Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy, and Religion, A
Symposium", published by the Conference on Science,
Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way
of Life, Inc., New York, 1941]
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The only source of knowledge is experience"
"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 am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my
imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George
Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The
Saturday Evening Post.
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely t o comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
"Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the i ndividual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man."
"During the last century, and part of the one before, it
was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between
knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds
that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by
kn owledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was
superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this
conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to
thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ
for t he people's education, must serve that end
exclusively."
Quoting Newton
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