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Albert Einstein Quotes about Religion

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The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.

The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Children, Religion

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

Albert Einstein
Religion, Agnostic, Reward And Punishment
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.340, Princeton University Press

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Soul, Religion
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.40, Princeton University Press

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

Albert Einstein
Science, Religion, Physics

... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

Albert Einstein
Selfish, Feelings, Religion
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Ideas, Religion
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.50, Broadway Books

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Religion, Atheism
"Einstein 'God' letter to sell on eBay, with bidding starting at $3M", www.foxnews.com. October 4, 2012.

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.

Albert Einstein
Independent, Men, Religion
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.24, Open Road Media

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

Albert Einstein
Religious, Science, Religion
Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.52, Courier Corporation

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Ideas, Religion
Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr. (28 September 1949), from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1997.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion
Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr. (28 September 1949), from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1997.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

Albert Einstein
Religion, Answers, Human Life
Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.13, Open Road Media

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