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<blockquote data-quote="Moreso" data-source="post: 69500772" data-attributes="member: 386316"><p>As you are religious it's only natural that you would be more than willing to take the quote completely out of context to bolster your belief.</p><p>This is the full quote:</p><p>“Though religion may be that which determines the goal, it has, nevertheless, learned from science, in the broadest sense, what means will contribute to the attainment of the goals it has set up. But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image:<strong> science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Einstein laid out his agnostic views on religion late in his life, when on 3 Jan 1954, he wrote a letter of thanks, in German, to Jewish philosopher Eric Gutkind, who had sent him a copy of his book, <em>Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt</em>. In this correspondence, written in the year before his death,<strong> Einstein explained his view of religions as “childish superstition:”</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>“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.”</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>“For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions,” the letter continues. “And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything ‘chosen’ about them.”</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moreso, post: 69500772, member: 386316"] As you are religious it's only natural that you would be more than willing to take the quote completely out of context to bolster your belief. This is the full quote: “Though religion may be that which determines the goal, it has, nevertheless, learned from science, in the broadest sense, what means will contribute to the attainment of the goals it has set up. But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image:[B] science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” [/B] Einstein laid out his agnostic views on religion late in his life, when on 3 Jan 1954, he wrote a letter of thanks, in German, to Jewish philosopher Eric Gutkind, who had sent him a copy of his book, [I]Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt[/I]. In this correspondence, written in the year before his death,[B] Einstein explained his view of religions as “childish superstition:” “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.” “For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions,” the letter continues. “And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything ‘chosen’ about them.”[/B] [/QUOTE]
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