Notes

  1. . Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years (reprint ed., 1950; Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1973), p. 24.
  2. . This is consistent with Immanuel Kant's division of science and religion, in which the domain of science is confined to the phenomenal realm and religion to man's moral life.
  3. . Einstein, p. 22.
  4. . Albert Einstein, Cosmic Religion (New York: Covici‐Friede, 1931), p. 48. Einstein avoids using the term “theology” because of its traditional overtones. However, the direction in which he proceeds is clearly “theological” in that it defends a particular understanding of the nature of God. The deep influence of Benedictus de Spinoza is evident in Einstein's treatment.
  5. . Ibid., p. 53.
  6. . For an excellent treatment of Einstein's epistemology see Gerald Holton, “Constructing a Theory: Einstein's Model.” American Scholar 48 (1979): 309–40.
  7. . Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, trans. Sonja Bargmann (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1973), p. 255.
  8. . Galileo Galilei, “Dialog on the Great World Systems,” in The Achievement of Galileo, ed. James Brophy and Henry Paolucci (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1962), p. 74.
  9. . Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, pp. 57–58.
  10. . Hans Reichenbach, “The Philosophical Significance of the Theory of Relativity,” in Albert Einstein: Philosopher‐Scientist, ed. Paul Arthur Schilpp (Evanston, Ill.: Library of Living Philosophers, 1949), p. 303.
  11. . Albert Einstein, The Born‐Einstein Letters: Correspondence between Albert Einstein and Max and Hedwig Born from 1916 to 1955, trans. Irene Born (New York: Walker & Co., 1971), p. 82.
  12. . Ibid., p. 27.
  13. . Einstein, Cosmic Religion, p. 27.
  14. . Born, p. 91.
  15. . Gerald Holton, Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973), p. 110.
  16. . Albert Einstein, “Autobiographical Notes,” in Albert Einstein: Philosopher‐Scientist (n. 10 above), p. 5.
  17. . Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post‐Critical Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), p. 300.
  18. . Einstein, “Autobiographical Notes,” p. 21.
  19. . For a straightforward account of Alfred North Whitehead's analysis of the subject‐object problem see Ivor Leclerc, Whitehead's Metaphysics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1958), pp. 115–23.