Sunday, September 2, 2012

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

Early in life, Einstein developed a combination of awe and rebellion. Those two traits combined to shape his spiritual journey and determine the nature of his faith. The rebellion part comes early in his life when he rejected the concepts of religious ritual and of a personal God who intervenes in the daily workings of the world. But the awe part comes in his fifties when he settled into a deism based on what he called "the spirit manifest in the laws of the universe" and a sincere belief in a God who "reveals Himself in the harmony of all that exists."
Einstein retained, from his childhood religious phase, a profound faith in and reverence for the harmony and beauty of what he called the mind of God as it was expressed in the creation of the universe and its laws.

According to Prince Hubertus, Einstein said, "In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views."

That's what someone said he said,  here's what he actually did say. 

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















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