Quote Originally Posted by siSTARindigo
Science without religion is lame.
Religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein
siSTAR, you're gonna hate me....

I was just reading what somebody was saying about that exact quote, here it is:

"Kristof (some author) also misinterprets Einstein's famous statement, suggesting that Einstein was voicing respect for religious credulity. Science without religion is lame, merely because "science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion." Whereas religion without science is blind because religion has no access to the truth -- it was, to Einstein's mind, nothing other than this "source of feeling," this striving for something greater that cannot itself be scientifically justified. Faith, therefore, is hunger only; while reason is its food.

Einstein seemed to consider faith nothing more than a eunuch left to guard the harem while the intellect was away solving the problems of the world. By pretending that it could proceed without any epistemic aspirations whatsoever, Eisnstein robbed religion of the truth of its doctrine. In so doing, he also relieved it of its capacity to err. This is not the faith that evangelicals, or any other reigious believers, have ever practiced. See Einstein, Ideas and Opinions (New York: Wing Books, 1954), 41-49."


Well, I'm not saying anyone knows what Einstein was really thinking, but here's another interpretation... And you can read Einstein's book (I haven't) to see if this is bullshit or not.