Religion Quotes by Albert Einstein

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

— Albert Einstein

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

— Albert Einstein

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

— Albert Einstein

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

— Albert Einstein

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

— Albert Einstein

“primitive religions are based entirely on fear”

— Albert Einstein

Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.

— Albert Einstein

You accept the historical Jesus?

— Albert Einstein

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

— Albert Einstein

Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.

— Albert Einstein

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

— Albert Einstein

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

— Albert Einstein

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.

— Albert Einstein

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

— Albert Einstein

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals…

— Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to…

— Albert Einstein

“No man or Genie on earth had "created" anything, we merely assembled God's Atoms, by learning it's properties, with his aid, so…

— Albert Einstein

Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of…

— Albert Einstein

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and…

— Albert Einstein

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking…

— Albert Einstein

I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He…

— Albert Einstein

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

— Albert Einstein

“Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific…

— Albert Einstein

“For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the…

— Albert Einstein

I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself…

— Albert Einstein

I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And…

— Albert Einstein

I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are…

— Albert Einstein

If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then…

— Albert Einstein

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty…

— Albert Einstein

I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As…

— Albert Einstein

“We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books…

— Albert Einstein

Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and…

— Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of…

— Albert Einstein

What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and…

— Albert Einstein

The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God…

— Albert Einstein

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to…

— Albert Einstein

“The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no…

— Albert Einstein

“Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad…

— Albert Einstein