Posted on 09/10/2005 4:56:18 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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Shhhh!
Well. Now that he's left this mortal coil, he probably has a fair idea of what the truth is.
"In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests"
Albert Einstein, "Science and Religion", Out of my Later Years, 1950
I am not worried what Einstein thought about God. The man was not even good with personal relationships, so his views on supernatural ones are somewhat suspect.
Another one, from his late years "I want to learn to think like God thinks"
Thanks for the ping!
If a way is ever found to recreate individual consciousness after death and destruction of the body then we all will.
I think what Einstein meant is that God is what He is, not what we want Him to be, which is very similar to what Physicist says sometimes.
He was a babe magnet. Goedel, though, wouldn't be in the same room as a germ.
Others:
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Einstein was a theologian too?
But Albert was smarter than God. /sarcasm
Brilliant physicist, amateurish theologian.
He was even worse in economics. The guy was a socialist. Anyway, everyone has thoughts on theology. It's always interesting to see what a really intelligent person has to say -- for whatever it may be worth. We get more than enough strident theological proclamations by people who have no clue about anything.
I don't think I would. The entire idea of living forever makes me feel very tired.
To me, Einstein's theology wasn't amateurish at all. Painfully honest.
God is unknowable. That's the honest truth.
You won't understand God by reading a book. That's the honest truth.
Put down the books and look around you, look outside, then you'll begin to understand God.
Einstein was able to prove things about physics that persuaded him that the universe moves according to predictable and knowable forces. That told him a lot about God, and it tells us all a lot about God.
From 1933 until 1955, the Federal Bureau of Investigation compiled a 2,000-page file on Albert Einstein, hoping to "destroy" his immense stature by linking him to Soviet espionage activities. At one point, not long before the scientist's death, a serious attempt was made to have him deported. This alarming campaign--responsible in large part for Einstein's exclusion from the Manhattan Project--is the subject of Fred Jerome's The Einstein File. Einstein's disloyalty, in the FBI's view, was clearly evidenced by his adamant political stances. He was a socialist, a pacifist (though he advocated war with Germany), and an outspoken foe of McCarthyism, nuclear war, and racism. Jerome's skillful narrative weaves the file's hateful (and often ludicrously inaccurate) entries with American political history, creating an invaluable context for both Einstein's views and the FBI's actions. Further, Jerome points to the more recent "sanitizing" of Einstein, from angry activist to "genial, absent-minded professor." This is a fascinating, compelling tale, one that reads like the strangest of fictions. --H. O'Billovich
Here is the link to the book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312288565/ref=pm_dp_ln_b_6/002-7865334-7653614?v=glance&s=books&vi=reviews
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