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Not a good idea to insult the public, even behind their backs. Don't
underestimate them.
Beryl
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>I sometimes it's useless to quote Einstein to the fundamentalist
>crowd. They probably think Einstein means "one beer" in German!
>
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>> Along with Newton, Einstein also saw no conflict between his science and
>> religion. The following quotes, much abridged, are from A.
>>Einstein, Ideas and
>> Opinions, Dell, NY, 1956.
>> <<You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scientific minds
>> without a religious feeling of his own. But it is different from
>>the religiosity
>> of the naive man. For the latter, God is a being from whose care
>>one hopes to
>> benefit and whose punishment one fears . . . . But 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.>> (p.
>> 49)
>> <<Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the
>> rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all
>>scientific work of a
>> higher order. This firm belief . . . in a superior mind that
>>reveals itself in the
>> world of experience, represents my conception of God. In common
>>parlance this
>> may be described as 'pantheistic'.>> (p. 255)
>> <<The main source of the present-day conflicts between the spheres of
>> religion and of science lies in this concept of a personal God.>> (pp. 55)
>>
>> I find it particularly interesting that Einstein uses "mind" and
>> "intelligence" in describing his belief.
>>
>> Ted Ansbacher
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