Albert Einstein and Religion

(The following quotes are taken from The Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press unless otherwise noted)

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."

(The following is from Einstein and Religion by Max Jammer, Princeton University Press)
"I'm not an atheist, and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations."

(The following is from The Quotable Einstein)
"Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me."

"I don't try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it."

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

"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. It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we can dimly perceive and to try humbly to comprehend even an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in Nature."

"The scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that , compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."

". . . In spite of all this, I don't let a single opportunity pass unheeded, nor have I lost my sense of humor. When God created the ass he gave him a thick skin." Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald W. Clark, Avon Books.

Reference: Deism

1. Seja um insistidor
“Não é que eu seja tão esperto. É que eu tento resolver os problemas por mais tempo”

2. Tenha foco
“Qualquer homem que consegue dirigir com segurança enquanto beija uma linda garota simplesmente não está dando a atenção que o beijo merece”

3. Crie valor
“Não lute para ser uma pessoa de sucesso. Lute para ser uma pessoa de valor”

4. Seja curioso(a)
“Eu não tenho nenhum talento especial. Apenas sou apaixonadamente curioso”

5. Cometa erros
“A pessoa que nunca cometeu um erro é aquela que nunca tentou algo novo”

6. Fuja da insanidade
“Definição de insanidade: fazer a mesma coisa diversas vezes esperando resultados diferentes”

7. Espere resistência
“Grandes espíritos sempre encontraram uma grande resistência das mentes medíocres”

8. Evolua rápido
“Você precisa aprender as regras do jogo. Então, você precisa jogar melhor do que todo mundo”