"I am a deeply religious non-believer," Einstein wrote in a letter to his friend and colleague Hans Muehsam, in 1954. "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."
However, his philosophy firmly excluded a belief in the supernatural or a Creator-God.
Todd Macalister's new book Einstein's God: A Way of Being Spiritual without the Supernatural, (Apocryphile Press, Berkeley; 2008) explores the scientist's views on spirituality as expressed through his lectures and personal papers.
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