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.
Albert Einstein
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2007-03-16 01:11:27 · 8 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), In a letter to Max Born, 1926
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
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.
Albert Einstein
2007-03-16 01:15:47 · update #1
IS this the quote of a wise man? Who can tell? Not every thing said by a wise man will be "wise". Not everything uttered by a fool will be "foolish".
Much of what "famous" men/women have said has been recorded. Do we record everything they say? No. We record what is memorable. When a famous person says something "ordinary" the recorders are idle (unless its someone we "hate" - then we make big news of this person's foolishness).
If that is, in fact, his religion then it is a true statement - whether it is a wise statement remains to be seen. If he were to die and see God and have God tell him he was wrong - then its not a wise statement. If he were to die and find out there is a "illimitable spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive" then he had great insight.
2007-03-16 01:35:06 · answer #1 · answered by onparadisebeach 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's not what he said, as far as I'm aware.
Try this on for size:
"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 absurd 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.
...and:
"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."
2007-03-16 01:14:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I remember Dr Wayne Dyer quoting Einstein as saying, "All I want is to think like God"
It is true that Einstein mentioned God in his quotes on several occasions. Also, it seems that he did not believe in concepts such as hell or eternal fire etc. His faith about God reflected a scientific and revolutionary attitude typical of him.
His concept of God seems way different from the concept of God in Bible or Koran. His vision of God resembles closely with the various school of Indian Darshan (vision) where God is transcendental and does not micro manage the Universe.
2007-03-16 04:29:33 · answer #3 · answered by Smart Indian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. The sentence is too vague to understand what he was getting at.
Some of those quotes imply wisdom, some don't. Albert was a great thinker and postulator making him a good scientist, but I don't think he was particularly wise. His world was too small for him to be wise.
2007-03-16 01:14:50 · answer #4 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, is just what I think. Religion without science is bad.
2007-03-16 03:57:33 · answer #5 · answered by cynical 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, this is a good way to enlightenment and or be calm and peace, and or nirvana.
2007-03-16 01:16:23 · answer #6 · answered by johnkamfailee 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Einstein had earthly wisdom......not Godly wisdom.
2007-03-16 01:32:11 · answer #7 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He has me convinced.
Love and blessings Don
2007-03-16 01:15:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋