The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.
(Albert Einstein)
I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our
science can reveal it.
(Albert Einstein, 1954) From Albert Einstein:
The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman,
Princeton University Press
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a
wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.
(Albert Einstein, 1936)
Source: Albert Einstein: The Human Side, Edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh
Hoffmann
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,
education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary.
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of punishment and hope of reward after death.
(Albert Einstein)
"Religion and Science", New York Times Magazine, 9 November 1930
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