Einstein's Belief?

Question

I saw a quote of Einstein saying the more he researches the Universe the more he believes there is a higher power, does anyone know exactly what he was talking about? like what he saw that made him believe?

Answer 1

Einstein may have been interpreted as saying he thought there were some unifying law tying stuff together.....he repeatedly rejected the concept of a personal god.

Repeatedly.

Answer 2

I'm a huge Einstein fan. Here's some more quotes that will give you an idea:

"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

"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

"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...." --Einstein

"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]

Answer 3

From Hebrew University of Jerusalem's biography of Albert Einstein:

"Throughout his life, Albert Einstein felt a close affinity with the Jewish people. Einstein defined Judaism as a culture with a shared historical past and common ethical values rather than as an institutionalized religion. For him the main values of Judaism were intellectual aspiration and the pursuit of social justice. Like Spinoza, he did not believe in a personal god, but that the divine reveals itself in the physical world. "

Answer 4

"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 (universe) so far as our science can reveal it." ~ Albert Einstein

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity... and I'm not that sure about the universe." ~ Albert Einstein

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Answer 5

I had the same revelation Einstein had.

I realized the concept of infinite space is so baffling that I became agnostic, who knows maybe some unknown power did create it. It's just too arrogant to say it couldn't exist or that we could know what it is.

Answer 6

Why is Einstein so important. He was not the source of all knowledge about everything

Answer 7

He used the temrs God and Higher Power loosely.

He was an atheistic pantheist/deist, he defined nature and the laws of physics and the like as "a higher power".

Answer 8

I know he was accused of being an aethist, but from a quote I heard of his, it was more the opposite, it went something like: I never said I don't believe in God, I just want to know how God makes things work.

Answer 9

Yeah, he was mostly talking about the order and design that he saw in mathematical equations and what not. He was in no way a Christian or anything like that.

Answer 10

"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings."