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Albert Einstein’s intimate confessions to fetch 16,000 dollars

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Albert Einstein was one of the most extraordinary personalities of the 20th century. He was a great physicist and a distinctive philosopher, and many of his remarks still excite interest and discussion in the scientific world. It goes about a letter that the creator of the theory of relativity wrote to German philosopher Eric Gutkind in 1954. This sample of the scientist’s philosophic thought has been kept in a private collection for over 50 years. Next week it will go on sale at a London auction and is expected to fetch 16,000 dollars.
However, the most interesting thing about the letter is not its price, but its contents. It is devoted to religion and expresses the scientist’s thoughts that may seem shocking to pious people.
“ The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this ,” Einstein wrote.
The letter written in German unveils even more sensational confessions. For instance, being a Jew and have once received a proposal to become the Israeli president, Einstein did not believe that the Jews are God’s favored people.
“ For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people ,” the letter said.
Oxford scientist John Brooke who studied Einstein’s biography for a long time called for careful interpretation of the letter.
“Like other great scientists he does not fit the boxes in which popular polemicists like to pigeonhole him . It is clear for example that he had respect for the religious values enshrined within Judaic and Christian traditions ... but what he understood by religion was something far more subtle than what is usually meant by the word in popular discussion, ” Brooke said.
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