本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛“I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings.”
Albert Einstein, upon being asked if he believed in God by Rabbi Herbert Goldstein of the Institutional Synagogue, New York, April 24, 1921, published in the New York Times, April 25, 1929; from Einstein: The Life and Times, Ronald W. Clark, New York: World Publishing Co., 1971, p. 413; also cited as a telegram to a Jewish newspaper, 1929, Einstein Archive 33-272, from Alice Calaprice, ed., The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000, p. 204.
“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. 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, in a letter March 24, 1954; from Albert Einstein the Human Side, Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, eds., Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1981, p. 43.
我相信斯滨诺莎所说的上帝,即在一个有序和谐的存在中揭示它自己的上帝,而不相信那种将自己视作天命及象人类一样作为的上帝。
你所读到的关于我的宗教信仰的说法当然是一个谎言, 一个被系统地重复着的谎言。我不相信人的肉身上帝,对此我从不否认,而是清楚地表达了这一点。如果在我的内心有什么能被称之为宗教的话,那就是对我们的科学所能够揭示的这个世界的结构的无限的敬仰。
我们再往上追溯一步,斯宾若莎的“上帝”就是大自然本身,而不是“创造”了大自然、“高”于大自然的那位。别看到GOD三个字母,就觉得是您的那个GOD,这么说我还信GOD(Glory or Death)呢,当然说DOG(Death or Glory)也行。更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
Albert Einstein, upon being asked if he believed in God by Rabbi Herbert Goldstein of the Institutional Synagogue, New York, April 24, 1921, published in the New York Times, April 25, 1929; from Einstein: The Life and Times, Ronald W. Clark, New York: World Publishing Co., 1971, p. 413; also cited as a telegram to a Jewish newspaper, 1929, Einstein Archive 33-272, from Alice Calaprice, ed., The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000, p. 204.
“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. 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, in a letter March 24, 1954; from Albert Einstein the Human Side, Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, eds., Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1981, p. 43.
我相信斯滨诺莎所说的上帝,即在一个有序和谐的存在中揭示它自己的上帝,而不相信那种将自己视作天命及象人类一样作为的上帝。
你所读到的关于我的宗教信仰的说法当然是一个谎言, 一个被系统地重复着的谎言。我不相信人的肉身上帝,对此我从不否认,而是清楚地表达了这一点。如果在我的内心有什么能被称之为宗教的话,那就是对我们的科学所能够揭示的这个世界的结构的无限的敬仰。
我们再往上追溯一步,斯宾若莎的“上帝”就是大自然本身,而不是“创造”了大自然、“高”于大自然的那位。别看到GOD三个字母,就觉得是您的那个GOD,这么说我还信GOD(Glory or Death)呢,当然说DOG(Death or Glory)也行。更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net