Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein's Opinions

Ethics Is marrying your cousin OK? Agree I love you [wrote Albert Einstein in a letter to Elsa Einstein, his cousin and (second) wife to be]. Edit Pitches 01 Jan 1912    Source God Is God just? Disagree I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him. The Mob Pitch   Edit Pitches 02 Jan 1915    Source Physics Does God exist? Neutral I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind. Edit Pitches 24 Apr 1921    Source Disagree The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. Edit Pitches 03 Jan 1954    Source

Philosophy Is there life after death? Agree Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. The Poetic Pitch   Edit Pitches 26 Feb 1925    Source Mostly Disagree 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. Edit Pitches 19 Apr 1955    Source Science Is creativity overrated? Disagree I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research. Edit Pitches 01 Jan 1931    Source Religion Does religion encourage good behavior? Mostly Agree Nobody, certainly, will deny that the idea of the existence of an omnipotent, just, and omnibeneficent personal God is able to accord man solace, help, and guidance [...but...] 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. Edit Pitches 01 Jan 1941    Source

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Conforming Opinions

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Nonconforming Opinions

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Projected Opinions

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