I would rather be able to see and have a slight limp, rather than being unable to see, thank you.
Einstein made such inclusive statements in his early days, maybe due to the necessity of keeping his people together in the face of persecution. Later, he made very attacking comments against religion.
Also, he wasn't a great independent thinker like me.
"Einstein called himself an agnostic rather than an atheist, stating: "I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a
personal god is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of
humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being."
[13] In an interview published by the German poet
George Sylvester Viereck, Einstein stated, "I am not an Atheist."
[10] According to
Prince Hubertus, Einstein said, "In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there 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."
[25]
In 1945 Guy Raner, Jr. wrote a letter to Einstein, asking him if it was true that a
Jesuit priest had caused Einstein to convert from atheism. Einstein replied, "I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. ... It is always misleading to use anthropomorphical concepts in dealing with things outside the human sphere—childish analogies. We have to admire in humility the beautiful harmony of the structure of this world—as far as we can grasp it, and that is all."
[26]
In a 1950 letter to M. Berkowitz, Einstein stated that "My position concerning God is that of an
agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment."
According to biographer
Walter Isaacson, Einstein was more inclined to denigrate atheists than religious people.
[27] Einstein said in correspondence, "[T]he fanatical atheists...are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against the traditional '
opium of the people'—cannot hear the
music of the spheres."
[27][28] Although he did not believe in a personal God, he indicated that he would never seek to combat such belief because "such a belief seems to me preferable to the lack of any
transcendental outlook."
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She’s not even that that attractive tbh.
