On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:59:20 -0400, "the central scrutinizer"

<123@fuse.net> wrote:

>Albert Einstein:
>
>After receiving the Nobel prize was offered the position
>of president of Israel declined saying:
>
>"God Almighty does not throw dice".
>Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation 1988
>
>Another of Einstein's statements, inscribed in Fine Hall
>at Princeton University reads (in English)
>"God is clever, but not dishonest"
>
>Courtesy of America's God and Country
>Encyclopedia of Quotations.
For clarification of Einstein's religious beliefs, Al Klein posted this excellent collection:

"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves.

An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension,...; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls." - Albert Einstein "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and actions of human beings." -A. Einstein (Einstein Archive 33-272) "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." - Albert Einstein: The Human Side "My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment. " - Letter to M. Berkowitz, October 25, 1950; Einstein Archive 59-215 "To assume the existence of an unperceivable being ... does not facilitate understanding the orderliness we find in the perceivable world." - Letter to an Iowa student who asked, What is God? July, 1953; Einstein Archive 59-085 "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever.... This is a somewhat new kind of religion." - Letter to Hans Muehsam March 30, 1954; Einstein Archive 38-434 "I don't try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it." - Letter to S. Flesch, April 16, 1954; Einstein Archive 30-1154 "I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism." - 1954 or 1955; quoted in Dukas and Hoffman Albert Einstein the Human Side, p. 39

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