Long before the category SBNR - spiritual but not religious - came into vogue, Einstein could easily be classified as someone who is spiritual but not traditionally "religious". Here's how he explained his belief in something beyond.....
"Try and penetrate with out limited means the secrets of nature, and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything we can comprehend is my religion. To that extend I am in, fact, religious.... What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of he cosmos."
"Try and penetrate with out limited means the secrets of nature, and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything we can comprehend is my religion. To that extend I am in, fact, religious.... What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of he cosmos."
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