"I am not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist."
At a dinner party in Berlin in 1929, 50 year old Einstein replied to another's disgust at the idea that he was religious. Einstein replied, "Yes, you can call it that. Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force behind anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious."
Asked, if he accepted the historical existence of Jesus, he replied, "Unquestionably, no one can read the gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life."
2007-04-10
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