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- "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more
important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26,
1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
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- "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."
Quoted on pg. 289 of Adventures of a Mathematician, by S. M. Ulam(Charles Scribner's Sons,
New York, 1976). Apparently these words also occur somewhere in What I Believe (1930).
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- "Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is
determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this
reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be i
nfluenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being."
[Albert Einstein, 1936, responding to a child who wrote and asked if scientists pray.
Source: "Albert Einstein: The Human Side", Edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann]
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- "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music.
I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in
life out of music."
"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October
26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
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- "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose
purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human
frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body,
although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."
[Albert Einstein, obituary in New York Times, 19 April 1955]
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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 ab
surd 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."
[Albert Einstein,_The World as I See It_]
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- "A man's ethical behavior 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."
[Albert Einstein, "Religion and Science", New York Times Magazine, 9 November 1930]
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- "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which
is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never
denied this but have expressed it clearly. 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, 1954, from "Albert Einstein: The Human Side", edited by Helen Dukas and
Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press]
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- "Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is
determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For
this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could
be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being."
[Albert Einstein, 1936, responding to a child who wrote and asked if scientists pray.
Source: "Albert Einstein: The Human Side", Edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann]
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- "I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of
individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I
cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent,
been placed in doubt by modern science. [He was speaking of Quantum Mechanics and the
breaking down of determinism.] My religiosity consists in a humble admiratation of the
infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak
and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest
importance -- but for us, not for God."
[Albert Einstein, from "Albert Einstein: The Human Side", edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh
Hoffman, Princeton University Press]
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- "To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of
fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the
sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject."
Ideas and Opinions
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- "Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration
toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the
sphere of religion...The situation may be expressed by an image: science without
religion is lame, religion without science is blind" --SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, AND
RELIGION: A SYMPOSIUM, 1941.
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- "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The
mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to
conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and
honestly." --letter to Morris Raphael Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the
College of the City of New York, defending the controversial appointment of Bertrand
Russell to a teaching position, March 19, 1940.
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