What do the scientists think about these Einstein quotes?

Your first quote of Einstein is, as I think, that some in science set out to prove that there isn't a God, and that is the passion behind their learning. With out that driving factor science to Einstein was lame. The second is his way of saying that people can see the glass half empty or half full, regardless it is to the individual to see it that way.

The third is that we are governed by the known laws of science, but in ones imagination there are no known boundaries and this is where science and scientists are not hindered by those who say that it can't be done, because there is hope that if it can be imagined then it can be achieved.

Whether Einstein believed in God as defined by religious standers I can't say, but the fact that he "Believed" in something greater than himself was enough for him.

I 2d the undeniable fact that Einstein isn't god the two. a controversy from aurthority would not tutor an fact. besides, extra Einstein: "unusual is our undertaking right here in the international. each and each persons comes for a quick pass to, not understanding why, yet each each now and then seeming to divine a purpose. From the point of view of each and daily existence, regardless of the undeniable fact that, there is one element we do be conscious of: that guy is right here for the sake of different men -- above fascinated in those upon whose smiles and nicely being our own happiness relies upon. i won't have the capacity to think of a God who rewards and punishes the products of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who's yet a pondered image of human frailty. Neither am i able to sense that the guy survives the death of his physique, besides the actuality that feeble souls harbor such techniques by concern or ridiculous egotisms. i've got not got self belief in immortality of the guy, and that i evaluate ethics to be an completely human undertaking devoid of superhuman authority in the back of it. it form of feels to me that the belief of a private God is an anthropological concept which i won't have the capacity to take heavily. I additionally won't be able to think of a few will or purpose outdoors the human sphere.... technological know-how has been charged with undermining morality, however the charge is unjust. a guy's ethical habit must be based efficaciously on sympathy, education, and social ties and desires; no non secular foundation is needed. guy might certainly be in a bad way if he had to be limited via concern of punishment and want of reward after death."

That's not all he said about religion. He knew, like many others, that there is nothing supernatural about the universe.

"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. "(Albert Einstein, The World as I See It)

"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."

(Albert Einstein, Obituary in New York Times, 19 April 1955)

Whjat about this one:

"It was ... 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."

Yawns.. Look, Einstein was not a believer in religion. His idea of God was the universe. He was a Deist if anything, so please stop trying to make him out to be a believer.

"For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions."

"I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but 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 believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind."[

He also said the greatest force in the universe is compound interest.

he obviously had never met Steven Speilberg

Einstein was a Spinozistic pantheist, like me. It's perfectly feasible to be one and a scientist.

Why would these kinds of quotes have any effect on them?