RE: Albert Einstein the Agnostic
January 26, 2016 at 2:25 am
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2016 at 2:27 am by Heat.)
(January 26, 2016 at 2:16 am)robvalue Wrote: Indeed, hence people's love of quote mining him.I would say that the flip-flopping of his quotes may indicate that in his personal life he actually did go back and forth on the subject of god, being a hard-theist devoted to his beliefs one day, and then downcasting the concept of god existing the other. I think he's too smart to not realize that what he was saying was contradictory of other things he's said, so a pretty logical explanation is that he must have actually believed what he was saying in all those instances, and in turn, struggled with his beliefs quite a bit.
I think I'd describe him as something of a pantheist, but in an extremely abstract way so as to be pretty much indistinguishable from an atheist.
Which is better:
To die with ignorance, or to live with intelligence?
Truth doesn't accommodate to personal opinions.
The choice is yours.
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