Re: [asa] An anthology of quotations "50 Nobelists who believe in God"

From the quote you gave, George, I would suppose the best description of
Einstein would be to say he was an agnostic.

Best,
Iain

On 4/30/07, George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
>
> Having just recommended Jammer's book, it occured to me that it might be
> helpful to quote from it one of Einstein's letters from 1952 which distances
> him from the likes of Dawkins. It's on pp.121-122.
>
> "The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive.
> However, I am also not a 'Freethinker' in the usual sense of the word
> because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively by
> an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar religious
> as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind
> to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate
> as 'laws of nature.' It is this consciousness and humility I miss in the
> Freethinker mentality."
>
> Shalom
> George
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/ <http://web.raex.com/%7Egmurphy/>
>

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