"I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."

"I cannot imagine a god who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a god who is but a reflection of human frailty."

"The main source of the present-day conflicts between the spheres of religion and science lies in the concept of a personal god."

"I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem - the most important of all human problems."

"Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism."

TAKEN FROM EINSTEIN'S PUBLISHED WORKS:

"Ideas and Opinions," Crown Books, New York, 1954

"Living Philosophies," Simon and Schuster, New York, 1931

"Out of My Later Years," Philosophical Library, New York, 1950