Albert Einstein God Quotations

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

MacMillan has this particular quote simply as God doesn't play dice. and notes that it is often quoted as doesn't play dice with the universe

God does not play dice with the universe.

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.

What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.

Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the "Old One." I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.

In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.

I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann.

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him.

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.

Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.

I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe.

I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos.

I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings