A.J.+Week+8

Einstein may be a man known for his discoveries in the field of science, but the road to science followed a trail through religion. He had always been one to pursue things to the fullest and when he put his mind to work he went all the way to the end. At an early age he related many things to the religion of Christianity. After the age of 16, “he tried to dissociate himself from organized religious activities and associations, inventing his own form of religiousness, just as he was creating his own physics.”(Holton) He saw religion as a necessity, but only the one that he thought was true. Albert Einstein wasn’t one to have someone tell him how to run his life, just as the way he made discoveries. Would he have made his remarkable discoveries of relativity had he listened to others while developing his theories? I think that he needed to have things his way and no one else’s way.

Albert Einstein not only believed in religion, but he felt it was necessary to the development of science. “For Einstein it was different, a constant preoccupation responding to a persistent, deeply felt intellectual and psychological need.”(Holton) He also applied this to his work on relativity. He believed that in order for himself to live he needed to prove the truth behind his idea. His work became his life. As we think about this we think about a person who works all the time and begins to go insane. Although his work became his life, life never was work for him. This was always just something he wanted to do. He was always trying to unify everything that he did. If he discovered something in one area then there had to be a way that it was related to another one of his or someone else’s discoveries. He wanted to relate everything with his “theory of everything”.

Einstein felt as if there were no boundaries between anything. That included between science and religion. I have to agree with him on this issue that people have fought over for years. Why do we need to keep the two separately? I think that the two should coexist alongside one another. As we learn more and more through science we are progressing towards ultimate knowledge. I believe that this would bring us closer to god as we learn more about the unknown. I think Einstein would have agreed with this as he explored the ideas of general relativity.