It's been a while since I did an article on a religious scientist.  I couldn't end the series without including Einstein.  He is probably the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.  The main reason I had to include him is because he is often claimed by athiest groups to be one of their own.  This is based on some anti-church statements he made, but being against, or indeferent to , organized churches is not being an athiest.  Einstein's was known to read the bible regularly and also read other religious books.  He is also well known for a number of quotes that show he had a firm belief in God, even if he didn't like organized religion.  Here are a few of them:

God does not play dice with the universe

The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.

I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.

science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.


Throughout his life, Einstein was consistent in rejecting the charge that he was an atheist. "There are people who say there is no God," he told a friend. "But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views."