Of course I’m talking about the great Albert Einstein.
Somehow, I never forget his birthday, i.e, 14th March. One of the reasons might be that the date happens to be just four days after my birthday. 
I dedicated a post to him last year and I would do it today as well. It makes me happy!
This year I would like to add an excerpt from his book “The World as I See It”-
Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and desire are the motive forces behind all human endeavour and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present itself to us. Now what are the feelings and needs that have led men to religious thought and belief in the widest sense of the words? A little consideration will suffice to show us that the most varying emotions preside over the birth of religious thought and experience. With primitive man it is above all fear that evokes religious notions–fear of hunger, wild beasts, sickness, death. Since at this stage of existence understanding of causal connexions is usually poorly developed, the human mind creates for itself more or less analogous beings on whose wills and actions these fearful happenings depend. One’s object now is to secure the favour of these beings by carrying out actions and offering sacrifices which, according to the tradition handed down from generation to generation, propitiate them or make them well disposed towards a mortal. I am speaking now of the religion of fear. This, though not created, is in an important degree stabilized by the formation of a special priestly caste which sets up as a mediator between the people and the beings they fear, and erects an hegemony on this basis. In many cases the leader or ruler whose position depends on other factors, or a privileged class, combines priestly functions with its secular authority in order to make the latter more secure; or the political rulers and the priestly caste make common cause in their own interests…
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Have a nice time everybody. 
God Bless this world.
Belated Happy birthday
Thank you
He is the father of the modern physics also… quantum physics and lots more.. he is the one who gave us the idea of time travelling apart from our daily used formulaes… thanks for such a nice post ma’m.. And belated happy birth day to you tooo…
Yup.
And thanks a lot.
Went over my head…..but a nice read about him..
Yeah it is a little complicated and I must mention that this excerpt is not all of it. So you definitely can’t understand the whole thing. I didn’t put the entire thing since it was too long.
Hey Nandini. I would be interested to know what his larger idea was in that. I don’t know what his religious views were, but what he’s describing is the argument people sometimes use to debunk religion in general … that it’s built out of fear of the unknown.
If I were more left-brained, I would learn formal (and informal) logic, so I would have a better handle on other peoples’ reasonings. You know, to say, “Well, this is a priori something or other,” … whatever that would mean.
But the notion that we turn to God out of fear of the unknown does not, of course, preclude the existence of God in general.
Though I suspect Einstein was a very serious spiritual thinker. One of my favorite quotes of his, which I have to paraphrase, goes something like, “You can either look at life as if nothing is a miracle, or as if everything is a miracle.”
Sorry for the long comment.
I like the idea of everything in our lives being a miracle. I believe it. Just imagining all the trillions of particles that make up my body, and how they work so perfectly to create thought and action … it’s something!
Anyway, hope you’re having a good day, my friend.
I have emailed you this book so that you can read the rest of it so that it makes more sense. I too found it a little complicated “read”. I had put it here so that others may read it too, since it was his B-Day.
Even I’m amazed by this fact of life/nature all the time, as you have mentioned “I like the idea of everything in our lives being a miracle. I believe it. Just imagining all the trillions of particles that make up my body, and how they work so perfectly to create thought and action … it’s something!”
It really is something.
Ian has quoted indeed a very great fact, wither everything is a miracle or nothing is.
And i must say, being a unorthodox scientist as Einstein was, maintaining spirituality with that scientific sense is not easy. Science and Spirituality never exist in harmony, sciences looks for explanation for everything, however, spirituality terms the inexplicable as a miracle. Really great of Einstein to be on both the sides…
And good post by the way.:)
Thank you
Einstein was different.