Some of Einstein's Writings on Science and Religion
Einstein's definition of the proper realms of science and religion. Religion and Science: Irreconcilable? There is no necessary conflict between science and religion if the nature of religion is properly understood.
Becoming a Freethinker and a Scientist
The following is an excerpt Albert Einstein's Autobiographical Notes,. These paragraphs appear on pp 3 & 5. When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life.
Belief Breeds Intolerance
In reading this material you should remember that Einstein is writing during an era of very widespread antisemitism. He is deeply affected by the record of Nazi cruelties against Jewish people. He writes in a world darkened by the shadow of the Holocaust.
Religion and Science: Irreconcilable?
Also Published in Albert Einstein's Ideas and Opinions pp. 49 - 52. Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science? The answers to these questions have, for centuries, given rise to considerable dispute and, indeed, bitter fighting.
Prayer - einsteinandreligion.com
A child in the sixth grade in a Sunday School in New York City, with the encouragement of her teacher, wrote to Einstein in Princeton on 19 January I936 asking him whether scientists pray, and if so what they pray for. Einstein replied as follows on 24 January 1936: I have tried to respond to your question as simply as I could.
Science and Religion
This article appears in Einstein's Ideas and Opinions, pp.41 - 49. The first section is taken from an address at Princeton Theological Seminary, May 19, 1939. It was published in Out of My Later Years, New York: Philosophical Library, 1950.
Spinoza and Einstein
The God of Einstein and Spinoza. From a letter to Eduard Büsching, Oct. 25, 1929, Einstein Archive, reel 33-275, quoted in Jammer, p. 51: When its author sent a book There Is No God to Einstein, Einstein replied that the book did not deal with the notion of …
My Credo - einsteinandreligion.com
This article is a speech by Albert Einstein to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin, in the autumn of 1932. This short speech appears in the Appendix of White and Gribbon p. 262. Our situation on this earth seems strange.
Source for the Spinoza Reference - einsteinandreligion.com
Einstein's praise of Spinoza for treating body and soul as a single unit seems genuine too, and unlikely to be a creation of Viereck. Material from the Viereck interview is reproduced in Brian and also in Jammer .
RELIGION AND SCIENCE: IRRECONCILABLE? (continued)
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