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Quotes from Religion and Science — Albert Einstein

1879–1955

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Everything that men do or think concerns the satisfaction of the needs they feel or the escape from pain.

Religion and Science (1930)

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Religion and Science (1930)

This is hard to make clear to those who do not experience it, since it does not involve an anthropomorphic idea of God; the individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought.

Religion and Science (1930)

Any one who only knows scientific research in its practical applications may easily come to a wrong interpretation of the state of mind of the men who, surrounded by skeptical contemporaries, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered over all countries in all centuries.

Religion and Science (1930)

How can this cosmic religious experience be communicated from man to man, if it cannot lead to a definite conception of God or to a theology? It seems to me that the most important function of art and of science is to arouse and keep alive this feeling in those who are receptive.

Religion and Science (1930)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Albert Einstein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.