Happy Birthday Albert Einstein

48:39) Reading from a Letter by Einstein from "Speaking of Faith" on npr
The Einstein Archives contains a letter dated August 5, 1927 from a banker in Colorado to Einstein in Berlin. The Colorado man remarked that most scientists had abandoned the archetypal image of a patriarchal God even though they worshipped one. Along with other prominent men, the banker's book club asked Einstein to forward his views on the subject. It's not certain if Einstein sent his reply, but on the banker's letter Einstein wrote the following in German (translation from Albert Einstein: The Human Side):

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God.  ....so true Morality is for Us...