It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama. Richard Feynman
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"It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has." This quote is one of the most well known quotes by Albert Einstein. He said this while he was at Princeton University in 1922. He was answering a question posed by his friend Marcel Grossman. This question asked whether or not God plays dice with the universe.

The answer Einstein gave was that although the universe was complex, it did not seem to be random enough to support the concept of randomness in God's game of dice. He also said that although the argument was logical, if it is true then it would mean that God is stupid. Einstein believed in God because he believed in himself.

He believed in science because he believed in himself. And most importantly, he believed in himself because he had faith in God.

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