C.: University Press of America, 1982 ), p. Halstead, in The Foundations of Science (Science Press, 1913 rep. Henri Poincaré, “The Measure of Time,” in The Value of Science, 1905, trans. 7–18 for Einstein’s denial of personalistic theism. Carl Selig (Frankfurt: Ullstein Bücher, 1934), pp. Einstein, “Wie ich die Welt sehe,” in Mein Weltbild,ed. Seeger, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 6 (Dordrecht: D. Gerald Holton, “Mach, Einstein, and the Search for Reality,” in Ernst Mach: Physicist and Philosopher,ed. Eddington, “A Generalization of Weyl’s Theory of the Electromagnetic and Gravitational Fields,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A99 (1921): 108. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Īrthur S. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. 3 Thus, he did not consider what difference theism might make to one’s views of time and space.
But he was, in Holton’s words, “quite unconcerned with religious matters during the period of his early scientific publications.” 2 Einstein remarked that by the age of twelve he had lost his faith because of science and became a free-thinker.
Only after 1930 did he begin to refer more frequently in his non-scientific writings to religious questions. To borrow Sir Arthur Eddington’s words, “physics has in the main contented itself with studying the abridged edition of the book of nature.” 1 Such indifference was characteristic of Einstein himself. Unfortunately in our secular age physicists and philosophers of space and time rarely, if ever, give careful consideration to the difference God’s existence makes for our conceptions of time and space. We have seen that for Newton God’s eternity and omnipresence were ontologically foundational for his views of time and space.
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