Reply #49: Fake Einstein quote, most likely...

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I removed this "quote" as almost certainly fabricated, as a Google search indicates no published sources of it prior to 2005, and that book merely cites an internet web page as its source:

"When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous."

Though Einstein respected many traditions the stated views are directly contrary to most of his known opinions regarding traditional faiths and his notions of God.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Albert_Einstein

Real Einstein quotes on the subject:

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere...

Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. - Albert Einstein, "Religion and Science," New York Times Magazine, November 9, 1930

The word "god" is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this. - Letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind, January 3, 1954