Everyone knows that Albert Einstein is a famous scientist… But do you ever notice that his view on religion and science?
Quote from Wiki:
In a 1950 letter to M. Berkowitz, Einstein stated that "My position
concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid
consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the
betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a
law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and
punishment."
"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."
A paper in published in 1940 entitled "Science and Religion". He says that: "a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to
be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the
fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts,
feelings and aspirations to which he clings because of their
super-personal value …regardless of whether any attempt is made to
unite this content with a Divine Being, for otherwise it would not be
possible to count Buddha and Spinoza as religious personalities.
Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are
clearly marked off from each other" there are "strong reciprocal
relationships and dependencies …science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind… a legitimate conflict between
science and religion cannot exist."
In Einstein’s view, "neither the
rule of human nor Divine Will exists as an independent cause of natural
events. To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with
natural events could never be refuted … by science, for [it]
can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge
has not yet been able to set foot."
In a letter to Eric Gutkind in 1954 Einstein said: "The word God is for
me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses,
the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which
are nevertheless pretty childish."
Albert Einstein does believed in "God" or in other sense, the Nature of the world…
p/s: Sydney is hosting the World Youth Day 08 from 15/7 - 20/7 and mark the first visit of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to Australia… which will cause some public transport/taffic special arrangement… XD
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