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Albert Einstein quotes about Religion and God

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"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

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God'S Thoughts"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 individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man."

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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

 

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"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."

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"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them." ~ Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 30 July 1932

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"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."

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"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

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"The most important function of art and science is to

Awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive."

 

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"I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific

research."

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"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

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"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...."

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"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals

himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

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"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."

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"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.

 

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 "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]

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"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."

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"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. If one asks the

whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justifed

merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions,

which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgements of the individuals; they are there,

that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the

medium of powerful personalities. One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense

their nature simply and clearly."

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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is

shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."

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"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."

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"In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein

and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of

superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid

experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who

have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an

angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the

temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both

present and past times, left inside"

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"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep

oneself."

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"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."

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"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

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"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 combinations of sensory

impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of

meaning."

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"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

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"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]

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"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we

suffer in soul or we get fat."

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"What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very

imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of "humility." This is a

genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism"

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"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."

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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the

prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such

opinions."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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 divine 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 which 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 discovered 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 to 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

understanding 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 man. 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

 

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"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."

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"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

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"If the possibility of the spiritual development of all individuals is to be secured, a second kind of outward freedom is necessary. The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit in general requires still another kind of freedom, which may be characterised as inward freedom. It is this freedom of the spirit which consists in the interdependence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudices as well as from unphilosophical routinizing and habit in general. This inward freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual."

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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

 

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