RE: The only human being to have won 2 unshared Nobel Prizes was an atheist.
March 14, 2018 at 1:28 am
(March 13, 2018 at 11:06 am)Little Rik Wrote:(March 13, 2018 at 10:51 am)Grandizer Wrote: Einstein was a romantic pantheist (god to him was just a poetic word for the cosmos). He didn't believe in a literal god, not even a literal pantheist god.
To sense that behind everything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense...I am a devoutly religious man.” In response to a young girl who had asked him whether he believed in God, he wrote: “everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe—a Spirit vastly superior to that of man.” And during a talk at Union Theological Seminary on the relationship between religion and science, Einstein declared: “the situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
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Like I said, he was a romantic pantheist, not a literal one. This quote doesn't contradict what I'm saying. In fact, he clearly said elsewhere that he was not a pantheist (nor an atheist, for that matter). Literally speaking, he was an agnostic atheist, though he didn't like the word "atheist" itself.
