Albert Einstein on God and Religion: Many people have asked what did Albert Einstein think about God? Einstein wasn’t always equivocal. Throughout his life, he was very consistent and clear about his beliefs regarding personal gods and prayer. In fact, in a 1954 letter he writes, “I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this.” Dive into Einstein’s believe about God.
“I want to know God’s thoughts – the rest are mere details.” ― Albert Einstein
“When the solution is simple, God is answering.” ― Albert Einstein
“The word ‘God’ is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.” ― Albert Einstein
“God is subtle but he is not malicious.” ― Albert Einstein
“Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.” ― Albert Einstein
“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.” ― Albert Einstein
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.” ― Albert Einstein
“God does not play dice with the universe.” ― Albert Einstein
“I don’t try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.” ― Albert Einstein
“I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind… to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)” ― Albert Einstein
“I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.” ― Albert Einstein
“Ideas come from God.” ― Albert Einstein
“I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.” ― Albert Einstein
“Evil is the absence of God.” ― Albert Einstein
“In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. ― Albert Einstein
“The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples’ lives.” ― Albert Einstein
“Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science?” ― Albert Einstein
“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.” ― Albert Einstein
“primitive religions are based entirely on fear” ― Albert Einstein
“My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.” ― Albert Einstein
“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