e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual sense of the word because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively by an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar religious as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insuffiency of the human mind to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature." It is this consciousness and humility I miss in the Freethinker mentality. Sincerely yours, Albert Einstein.

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

Watch the stars, and from them learn.

It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.