Einstein:-

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions,
a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a
personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it
clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it
is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as
our science can reveal it.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of
religion.
I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that
could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a
magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly,
and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This
is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with
mysticism.

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive.

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Letter in Reply to Einstein Typical of those of the Religious Minds:-

We respect your learning, Dr Einstein; but there is one thing you do
not seem to have learned: that God is a spirit and cannot be found
through the telescope or microscope, no more than human thought or
emotion can be found by analyzing the brain. As everyone knows,
religion is based on Faith, not knowledge. Every thinking person,
perhaps, is assailed at times with religious doubt. My own faith has
wavered many a time. But I never told anyone of my spiritual
aberrations for two reasons: (1) I feared that I might, by mere
suggestion, disturb and damage the life and hopes of some fellow
being; (2) because I agree with the writer who said, 'There is a mean
streak in anyone who will destroy another's faith.' ... I hope, Dr
Einstein, that you were misquoted and that you will yet say something
more pleasing to the vast number of the American people who delight to
do you honor.

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