- When Einstein learned of the death of his old physicist friend Michele Besso, he wrote the Besso family: “He has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn illusion.” http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/columns/michael-shermer/einstein%E2%80%99s-god 133 comments science
- Einstein’s God - He leaned towards the agnostic. “I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind” http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/columns/michael-shermer/einstein%E2%80%99s-god 13 comments worldnews