- It is hardly anything new for a scientist to believe in God. The two greatest science giants: Isaac Newton and A. Einstein, both believed in God to some extent, but their convictions are subject to interpretations (see extracts and quotes below). really, it's something to do with the definitions.
To me, God represents an unknown part of laws of nature. There two parts in Nature: the known part to us today (only a tiny bit of the universe), and the unknown part, which occupies the vast majority of the space of Nature. We cannot draw a conclusion that there is a god with so limited knowledge of the world around and inside us. We simply are not equipped to conclude anything definite – maybe something beyond our imagination and logic to be found which will give us more clear ideas about the universe and ourselves and we should never reach the shore because in the meantime, the universe is evolving according to laws of unknown nature. The unknown is the most enchanting force to lead human being to discover more and our journey is an infinite yet facinating one.
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Newton's Mysticism
What is not as well understood about Newton was his deep devotion to religion--especially the more mystical variety of it. Newton considered himself a deeply devout Christian--though not of the normal sort. He was, in short, a unitarian [one who believes ... that the position of God is not shared by two other "persons," namely Jesus and the Holy Spirit; ... that Jesus is rather an adoptive "Son" of God--as we all have the potential to be--through having lived a Godly life]. Discovery of his unitarianism would have been ruinous for Newton in English society--so he kept his religious beliefs well away from public view.
In any case, he stood himself before God in great awe--great awe of the One who crafted the universe with such precision. It was this precision that so inspired Newton--that he gave his life to its uncovery for human viewing. Science and mathematics were thus for Newton virtually religious enterprises.
But in addition to this very rationalistic appreciation of the grandeur of God, there was also an aspect of his appreciation of God that today would be considered simply superstitious. While totally logical-rational in his approach to scientific theory, Newton was strangely mystical in his approach to technology. He was fascinated with the medieval practice of alchemy (the use of mystical incantations and magical formulas to change common elements into more precious ones, such as gold)--and particularly in his later years of life gave even more time to this pursuit than to science and math. (Copyright © 2000 by Miles H. Hodges.)
And here are the quotes of Estinern on religions.
"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." Upon being asked if he believed in God by Rabbi Herbert Goldstein of the Institutional Synagogue, New York, April 24, 1921, Einstein: The Life and Times, Ronald W. Clark, Page 502.
"Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntary and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own." ... "The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavour in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is." Einstein's speech 'My Credo' to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin, autumn 1932, Einstein: A Life in Science, Michael White and John Gribbin, Page 262.
And here's one that seems to speak from the grave:
"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 Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas (Einstein's secretary) and Banesh Hoffman, and published by Princeton University Press.
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Of course, Kant says: “We cannot understand ourselves, because if we are simple enough to be understood, we will be too stupid to understand.”
At any rate, humor is always a good way to relax ourselves.
And we know the Show Must Go On.
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