Quotes from Albert Einstein

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

I want to know God's thoughts.

You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like.

God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.

You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order.

God Almighty does not throw dice.

Coincidences are God's way of staying anonymous.

I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.

You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order.

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing.

I want to know all God's thoughts.

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details.

I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.

The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.