Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.
Albert EinsteinThere are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views
Albert EinsteinI know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.
Albert EinsteinIt is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.
Albert EinsteinHe who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert EinsteinThus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.
Albert Einstein