bbfreeburn
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I'm reading a biography of Einstein and found this statement in it. I think Greg in particular might find it interesting.
"Einstein's god appears as the physical world itself, with its infinitely marvelous structure operating at the atomic level with the beauty of a craftsman's wristwatch, and at the stellar level with the majesty of a massive cyclotron. This was belief enough. It grew early and rooted deep. Only later was it dignified by the title of cosmic religion, a phrase which gave plausible respectability to the views of a man who did not believe in life after death and who felt that if virtue paid off in the earthly one, then this was the result of cause and effect rather than celestial reward. Einstein's god thus stood for an orderly system obeying rules which could be discovered by those who had the courage, the imagination, and the persistence to go on searching for them. "
"Einstein's god appears as the physical world itself, with its infinitely marvelous structure operating at the atomic level with the beauty of a craftsman's wristwatch, and at the stellar level with the majesty of a massive cyclotron. This was belief enough. It grew early and rooted deep. Only later was it dignified by the title of cosmic religion, a phrase which gave plausible respectability to the views of a man who did not believe in life after death and who felt that if virtue paid off in the earthly one, then this was the result of cause and effect rather than celestial reward. Einstein's god thus stood for an orderly system obeying rules which could be discovered by those who had the courage, the imagination, and the persistence to go on searching for them. "
