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Published on: 9/16/1999
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Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, and published by Princeton UniversityPress. ]
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority.lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation.
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us, not for God. [ Albert Einstein, from Albert Einstein : The Human Side, edited by HelenDukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press, p.66 ]
...a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light but only in the dark,.will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress.In.their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up.
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it. [ Albert Einstein, 1954, from Albert Einstein : The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas andBanesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press ]
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very.imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.This is a.genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. [ Albert Einstein ].
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Human Side, Edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann ]
I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos. [ Albert Einstein, published after his.death in 1955 in the London Observer, 5 April 1964, on his problems with quantum mechanicsand not, as popularly misinterpreted, an expression of religious belief. ]
The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer become his.conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of.a different nature.
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seriously. [ Albert Einstein, letter to Hoffman and Dukas, 1946 ]
If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every.human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work ; how is it possible.to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty.Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing.judgment on Himself.How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed.
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Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press, pp 69-70 ]
of popular scientific books. [ Albert Einstein, as quoted in Einstein, History, and Other.