Einstein and Religion
1999 book
Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology (1999) is a book on the religious views of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein by Max Jammer, published by Princeton University Press.
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References
Playing dice with Einstein: Essay review of Einstein and Religion, Michael D. Gordin (Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA), Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics volume 33 year 2002 pp. 95–100.
Einstein and Religion, Book Reviews, Gerald Holton, Philosophy of Science. Vol. 67, No. 3, (Sep., 2000), pp. 530–533.
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