“I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.”

— Albert Einstein

As quoted in "A Talk with Einstein" in The Listener 54 (1955) p. 123
Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and Religion (1999)

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