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Einstein's response to Alfred Kerr after deriding ideas of God and religion at a dinner party

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22 July 2010
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Originally published 22 July 2010 on the earlier martinpeniak.com site.

Preserved from the earlier public site as part of the personal record. The article keeps its period voice, with light formatting cleanup.

Alfred Kerr:  "I hear that you are supposed to be deeply religious."

Albert Einstein: "Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that behind all the discernible concatenations there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious."

quoted in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan by H. G. Kessler, 1971

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