/sci/ - Science & Math

/sci/, OP here. I'm teasing with you, wanted to hear your calls on this. I liked this one: >>4932779 .

The letter is pretty much real and addressed to no less than Albert Einstein.

Source: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/05/dear-einstein-do-scientists-pray.html

His answer:

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January 24, 1936

Dear Phyllis,

I will attempt to reply to your question as simply as I can. Here is my answer:

Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish.

However, we must concede that our actual knowledge of these forces is imperfect, so that in the end the belief in the existence of a final, ultimate spirit rests on a kind of faith. Such belief remains widespread even with the current achievements in science.

But also, everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is surely quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.

With cordial greetings,

your A. Einstein

>>4441996
Thanks, great post.

I thought I would share what I found to be a poignant statement. Discuss if you'd like:

"Our time is rich in inventive minds, the inventions of which could facilitate our lives considerably. We are crossing the seas by power and utilise power also in order to relieve humanity from all tiring muscular work. We have learned to fly and we are able to send messages and news without any difficulty over the entire world through electric waves. However, the production and distribution of commodities is entirely unorganised so that everybody must live in fear of being eliminated from the economic cycle, in this way suffering for the want of everything. Further more, people living in different countries kill each other at irregular time intervals, so that also for this reason any one who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror. This is due to the fact that the intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce some thing valuable for the community. I trust that posterity will read these statements with a feeling of proud and justified superiority."

-Albert Einstein's inscription on the Westinghouse Time Capsul (buried in 1939, to be opened in 6939)

To exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving from the work of other men both living and dead.

>>2252050

this is relevant to mein interests

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein

Even Einstein agreed that religion and science are things that can't be separated