Post by Ginnie on Jul 3, 2007 21:46:33 GMT -4
Some of Einstein's quotes about religion:
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"
"It was of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematicaly repeated. I don not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed this clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious, then it it the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as science can reveal it."
"I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion"
"I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
"The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive."
"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."
"To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious."
Comments about Einstein's beliefs (in 1940):
RC Bishop of Kansas City: "It is sad to see a man, who comes from the race of the Old Testament and its teaching, deny the great tradition of that race."
Clergyman: "There is no other God but a personal God...Einstein does not know what he is talking about. He is all wrong. Some men think that because they have achieved a high degree of learning in some field, they are qualified to express opinions in all".
RC lawyer: "We deeply regret that you made your statement...in which you ridicule the idea of a personal God. In the past ten years nothing has been so calculated to make people think that Hitler had some reason to expel the Jews from Germany as your statement. Conceding your right to free speech, I still say that your statement constitutes you as one of the greatest sources of discord in America."
A New York Rabbi: "Einstein is unquestionably a great scientist, but his religious views are diametrically opposed to Judaism."
Calvary Tabernacle Assoc. of Oklamhoma: " We will not give up our belief in our God and his son Jesus Christ, but we invite you, if you do not believe in the God of the people of this nation, to go back where you came from...Take your crazy, fallacious theory of evolution and go back to Germany where you came from."
Any comments from this forum?
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"
"It was of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematicaly repeated. I don not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed this clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious, then it it the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as science can reveal it."
"I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion"
"I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
"The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive."
"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."
"To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious."
Comments about Einstein's beliefs (in 1940):
RC Bishop of Kansas City: "It is sad to see a man, who comes from the race of the Old Testament and its teaching, deny the great tradition of that race."
Clergyman: "There is no other God but a personal God...Einstein does not know what he is talking about. He is all wrong. Some men think that because they have achieved a high degree of learning in some field, they are qualified to express opinions in all".
RC lawyer: "We deeply regret that you made your statement...in which you ridicule the idea of a personal God. In the past ten years nothing has been so calculated to make people think that Hitler had some reason to expel the Jews from Germany as your statement. Conceding your right to free speech, I still say that your statement constitutes you as one of the greatest sources of discord in America."
A New York Rabbi: "Einstein is unquestionably a great scientist, but his religious views are diametrically opposed to Judaism."
Calvary Tabernacle Assoc. of Oklamhoma: " We will not give up our belief in our God and his son Jesus Christ, but we invite you, if you do not believe in the God of the people of this nation, to go back where you came from...Take your crazy, fallacious theory of evolution and go back to Germany where you came from."
Any comments from this forum?
