What Did Einstein Believe About God?

Michael Shermer, Big QuestionsAlbert Einstein famously opined, "God is cunning but He is not malicious." And: "God does not play dice." When asked his motivation for doing physics, Einstein replied: "I want to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details." In the final weeks of his life, when Einstein learned of the death of his old physicist friend Michele Besso, he wrote the Besso family: "He has departed from this strange...

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