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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 ] He clarified, however, that, "I am not an atheist ", [ 4 ] preferring to call himself an agnostic , [ 5 ] or a "religious nonbeliever."
Albert Einstein didn't merely disbelieve or even deny the existence of the sort of god traditionally asserted in monotheistic religions. He went so far as to deny that such gods could even be moral if religious claims about them were true.
In what is perhaps his most famous remark involving God, Einstein expressed his dissatisfaction with the randomness in quantum physics: his “God doesn’t play dice” quote. The actual phrasing,...
He considered himself more of an agnostic (nothing is or can be known about the nature of God), and in a way he did believe in a God. He believed in ‘Spinoza’s God.’
What god did Einstein believe in, anyway? Einstein believed in the unseen—like gravitational waves, ripples in space and time. Now, we can see this, as shown by the 2017 Nobel Prize...
Einstein talked a lot about God. He invoked him repeatedly in his physics—so much so that his friend, Niels Bohr, once berated him for constantly telling God what he could do. He was “enthralled by the luminous figure” of Jesus.
Often he seems to stand in awe of a vague deist notion of God; Often, he seems maximally agnostic. Einstein rejected the atheist label, it’s true. At no point in his adult life, however, did he express anything at all like a belief in traditional religion.
In 1929, Einstein received a telegram inquiring about his belief in God from a New York rabbi named Herbert S. Goldstein, who had heard a Boston cardinal say that the physicist’s theory of relativity implies “the ghastly apparition of atheism.”
Two religious utterances of Einstein have been widely discussed, namely, his belief in the "God of Spinoza" and his disbelief in a personal God. "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals Himself," he says, "in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns him- self with fates and actions of Human.
However, Albert Einstein consistently and unambiguously denied believing in a personal god who answered prayers or involved himself in human affairs—exactly the sort of god common to religious theists claiming that Einstein was one of them.