(August 20, 2011 at 5:18 am)diffidus Wrote: What about Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein?
Einstein was not religious. Read my signature for his words on his belief. Einstein used the word 'God' to describe the unknown aspects of the cosmos that the human intellect cannot grasp. These sayings have been highjacked by theists to falsely give the impression that the one of the greatest minds of all time was religious.
And Newton was into alchemy, so in those respects, he was a moron.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
