Albert Einstein Quotes About God
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I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
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I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
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A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
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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.
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You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
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You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one.
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the "Old One." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.
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In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
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Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
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There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
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Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
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A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
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In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.
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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
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Albert Einstein
- Born: March 14, 1879
- Died: April 18, 1955
- Occupation: Theoretical Physicist
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