Volume 2, Issue 2, February 1995

STOP TELLING GOD WHAT TO DO

The scientist-philosopher, J. Bronowski, in his book, "The Ascent of Man", (P. 256), says it is "important to talk of the ascent of man in the presence of two men, Newton and Einstein, who strode like gods. Of the two, Newton is the Old Testament god; it is Einstein who is the New Testament figure. He was full of humanity, pity, a sense of enormous sympathy. His vision of nature herself was that of a human being in the presence of something god-like, and that is what he always said about nature. He was fond of talking about God: `God does not play at dice,'`God is not malicious'.

Finally a fellow scientist, Niels Bohr, one day said to him, `Stop telling God what to do'.

But that is not quite fair. Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his life showed, and his work, is that when the answers are simple too, then you hear God thinking."

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