25 result(s) for Albert Einstein Quotes About God.
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, or has purposes of the kind that we have in ourselves."
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
"The more I study science, the more I believe in God."
"I'm not an atheist."
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"God does not play dice with the universe."
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
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"Then 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."
"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 support of such views."
"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."
"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 principle of reward and punishment."
"The fanatical atheists 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 traditional religion as the 'opium of the people'—cannot hear the music of the spheres."
"You find it strange that I should speak of the ‘incomprehensibility’ of the world. Well, perhaps you will discover that behind all that is incomprehensible there lies something that our mind can comprehend. But maybe we shall never discover it."
"I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious."
"The scientists' religious feeling takes the form of rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."
"A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant. At least not when that truth presumes that his religion is the only one. "
"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."
"My God created laws...his universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
"God is subtle, but he is not malicious."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
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"Old Man in Heaven? No, I don't believe he exists because that's just poppycock."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"A law is imposed on us. The natural laws are something that exist, and our minds do not invent it, do not create it. These natural laws exist outside of us, and we discover them."
"We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books."