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Albert Einstein, 1921. Albert Einstein's religious views have been widely studied and often misunderstood. [1] Albert Einstein stated "I believe in Spinoza's God". [2] He did not believe in a personal God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings, a view which he described as naïve. [3]
Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German theoretical physicist, one of the most prolific intellects in human history, identified with Spinoza's God and called his own views on God "pantheistic". [ 41 ] [ 42 ] Einstein held a wavering view on pantheism and at times did not endorse it completely, making the statement in 1930, "I do not know if I can ...
In the chapter "Truth of My Father", Sagan writes that his "father believed in the God of Spinoza and Einstein, God not behind nature, but as nature, equivalent to it." [ 64 ] In 2009, pantheism was mentioned in a Papal encyclical [ 65 ] and in a statement on New Year's Day, 2010, [ 66 ] criticizing pantheism for denying the superiority of ...
Einstein 1921. Albert Einstein named Spinoza as the philosopher who exerted the most influence on his world view (Weltanschauung). Spinoza equated God (infinite substance) with Nature, consistent with Einstein's belief in an impersonal deity. In 1929, Einstein was asked in a telegram by Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein whether he believed in God ...
The Einstein-de Haas experiment is the only experiment concived, realized and published by Albert Einstein himself. A complete original version of the Einstein-de Haas experimental equipment was donated by Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz , wife of de Haas and daughter of Lorentz, to the Ampère Museum in Lyon France in 1961 where it is currently on ...
[63] Ockham believed that an explanation has no sufficient basis in reality when it does not harmonize with reason, experience, or the Bible. Unlike many theologians of his time, though, Ockham did not believe God could be logically proven with arguments. To Ockham, science was a matter of discovery; theology was a matter of revelation and ...
Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology (1999) is a book on the religious views of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein by Max Jammer, published by Princeton University Press. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
- Albert Einstein, statement to German anti-Nazi diplomat and author Prince Hubertus zu Lowenstein in 1941, as quoted in his book Towards the Further Shore : An Autobiography (1968) Einstein never said he didn't believe in God as proven by the multiple examples to the contrary.