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It rejected a conflict between science and religion, and held that cosmic religion was necessary for science. [10] For Einstein, "science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." [46] [47] He told William Hermanns in an interview that "God is a mystery. But a comprehensible mystery.
Fact–value distinction. The fact–value distinction is a fundamental epistemological distinction described between: [1] Statements of fact (positive or descriptive statements), which are based upon reason and observation, and examined via the empirical method. Statements of value (normative or prescriptive statements), which encompass ethics ...
The relationship between religion and science involves discussions that interconnect the study of the natural world, history, philosophy, and theology. Even though the ancient and medieval worlds did not have conceptions resembling the modern understandings of "science" or of "religion", [1] certain elements of modern ideas on the subject recur ...
Intersubjective verifiability. Intersubjective verifiability is the capacity of a concept to be readily and accurately communicated between different individuals ("intersubjectively"), and to be reproduced under varying circumstances for the purposes of verification. It is a core principle of empirical, scientific investigation. [1][2][3]
Albert Einstein, 1947. The World as I See It is a book by Albert Einstein translated from the German by A. Harris and published in 1935 by John Lane The Bodley Head (London). The original German book is Mein Weltbild by Albert Einstein, first published in 1934 by Rudolf Kayser, with an essential extended edition published by Carl Seelig in 1954 ...
Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein is a biography of Albert Einstein written by Abraham Pais. First published in 1982 by Oxford University Press, the book is one of the most acclaimed biographies of the scientist. [4] This was not the first popular biography of Einstein, but it was the first to focus on his ...
Einstein and Religion. 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. Albert Einstein[a] (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. [1][6] His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2 ...