Albert
Einstein
Nobel Laureate in Physics
“Then there are fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same
kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the
same source. They are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of
their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are
creatures who — in their grudge against the traditional ‘opium for the
people’ — cannot bear the music of the spheres. The Wonder of nature
does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards
of human and moral aims.”
“The more I study science the more I believe in God.” “True religion is
real living — living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and
righteousness.” I accept the historical Jesus “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.”
“I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this
or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to
know his thoughts, the rest are details.” “We are in the position of a
little child entering a huge library filled with books in many
different languages. The child knows someone must have written those
books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in
which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in
the arrangement of the books, but doesn’t know what it is.” “We see a
Universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly
understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious
force that moves the constellations.” “Everyone who is seriously
involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is
manifest in the laws of the universe — a spirit vastly superior to that
of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must
feel humble. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious
feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the
religiosity of someone more naive.”
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