I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose …

Albert Einstein
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I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being. ✨ Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., September 28, 1949.
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