Bible To Einstein: "I know you are but what am I?"

[valiens]

Einstein letter calls Bible ‘pretty childish’
Famous scientist also dismisses belief in God as product of human weakness

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24598856/

 

[banning]

"Like many great scientists of the past, he is rather quirky about religion, and not always consistent from one period to another," Brooke said.
-from the article

Because i know that when quantum mechanics came out and challenged Einstein he had said something like how he couldn't imagine that God would have created such a chaotic universe, that he believed it was more elegant that what quantum mechanics suggested. I don't remember the quote exactly... i may have read it in one of my string theory books. If what i said upsets someone then i'll make more of a point to find my resources on that one.

 

[Graphimancer]

I think his quote was "God doesn't play dice," refuting what he saw as chaos in favor of something more elegant.

 

[Ron Collins]

I think his quote was "God doesn't play dice," refuting what he saw as chaos in favor of something more elegant.

Actually that is the common paraphrase of the translated quote. The real qoute is: "Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the 'old one'. I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice." It was sent in a letter to Max Born (co-developer of the theory of Quantum Mechanics) in 1924. It is often mistakenly attributed to the the famous Niels Bohr and Einstein debate.

 

[Ron Collins]

The book "Einstein" is a good one though it has its boring parts. It puts to rest some of the urban legands I heard while in high school and college. You know, "Einstein flunked 7th grade" or "he was a terrible with math as a kid". Actually he was doing multi-variable calculus at 10. He was a first rate genius who never quite jelled with his contemporaries. Anywho, thats my two bits.

 

[banning]

The book "Einstein" is a good one though it has its boring parts. It puts to rest some of the urban legands I heard while in high school and college. You know, "Einstein flunked 7th grade" or "he was a terrible with math as a kid". Actually he was doing multi-variable calculus at 10. He was a first rate genius who never quite jelled with his contemporaries. Anywho, thats my two bits.

thats pretty cool i'll have to go get that book

 

[Graphimancer]

Thanks, Ron--I was just going on memory there, and you know how faulty memory is.

 

[ArizonaWill]

The book "Einstein" is a good one though it has its boring parts. It puts to rest some of the urban legands I heard while in high school and college. You know, "Einstein flunked 7th grade" or "he was a terrible with math as a kid". Actually he was doing multi-variable calculus at 10. He was a first rate genius who never quite jelled with his contemporaries. Anywho, thats my two bits.

And to think that if Einstein had been in Germany, he'd have been exterminated because he was a Jew, and the world would have been set back a hundred years or more. Makes you wonder what else we lost due to the butchery of the Third Reich and other similar regimes.