“One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.”

—  Albert Einstein

Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein's God (1997), p. 98

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