信仰情怀与科学动力 爱因斯坦在1940年纽约举行的“科学、哲学与宗教大会”上,讲过一句频频为人徵引的名言:“有科学而无宗教乃是跌足的科学,有宗教而科学则是失明的宗教。”然而爱因斯坦并不是宗教的信徒。他仅仅信仰“斯宾诺莎的上帝”,亦即对宇宙的终极本体,有一种个人的直观体验。在1930年出版的《我的信仰》中他曾论及:人所能有的最美好的经验乃是神秘体验;一个不复有讶然好奇之感的人,不啻走骨行尸;正是这种神秘 Faith and Scientific Motivation Einstein spoke at a Science, Philosophy and Religion conference in New York in 1940 about a frequently quoted quote: “Science without religion is a science that drops the foot, science with religion and science Is a blind religion. ”However, Einstein is not a religious believer. He only believes in “God of Spinoza,” a personal and intuitive experience of the ultimate noumenon of the universe. He wrote in The My Beliefs, 1930, that the best experience a man can have is a mystical experience; a man who no longer has a sense of curiosity does not walk on a corpse; it is This mystery