Walter Isaacson Quote

Like Spinoza, Einstein did not believe in a personal God who interacted with man. But they both believed that a divine design was reflected in the elegant laws that governed the way the universe worked. This was not merely some expression of faith. It was a principle that Einstein elevated (as he had the relativity principle) to the level of a postulate, one that guided him in his work. When I am judging a theory, he told his friend Banesh Hoffmann, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way. When

Walter Isaacson

Like Spinoza, Einstein did not believe in a personal God who interacted with man. But they both believed that a divine design was reflected in the elegant laws that governed the way the universe worked. This was not merely some expression of faith. It was a principle that Einstein elevated (as he had the relativity principle) to the level of a postulate, one that guided him in his work. When I am judging a theory, he told his friend Banesh Hoffmann, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way. When

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