...The great scientist Albert Einstein had what could be called a Cosmic Spirituality or, even, a Cosmic Religion (not Comic, that would be for Dante's Divine Comedy). Like the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, Einstein believed in a "pantheistic" God, meaning that he saw God everywhere and in everything (in the Cosmos). Thought agnostic, he rejected being labelled an atheist yet, being Jewish, did not believe in a "Personal" God. He is famously quoted as saying "Science without religion is lame, but religion without science is blind". Feeling humility before the mystery of God this Cosmic Religion allowed him to say that, in this sense, he was a devoutly religious man...
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