网友春夏秋摘译的爱因斯坦关于信仰的一些言论

费了半天劲摘译了爱因斯坦关于信仰的一些言论，突兀之处请参见原文。

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607298,00.html

"Through the reading of popular scientific books, I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of free thinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression."

通过读科技书籍，很快意识到圣经上故事很多不可能是真的。结果就是自由思想的热情夹杂着年轻人被谎言肆意欺蒙的感觉，那是相当不愉快的。

"I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind."

我相信斯宾喏莎的泛神，体现在大千世界的有序运转中。我不相信一个主宰一切人类活动和命运的神。

"I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws."

“我不是个无神论者，也不能称自己是个泛神论者。问题是我们的思维太有限。我们好象一个小孩进入一个大的图书馆，内藏各种语言的书籍。必定有人写这些书，但不知道是怎么个来历，也不知道是用什么语言写的。这个小孩猜测一定是个什么神秘力量成就了这些书，但无法知晓究竟是什么力量成就的。对我来说，这就是人，即便是顶聪明的人，持有的对神的看法和态度。我们看到宇宙有条不紊，但对其规律所知甚少。”

"I am a determinist. I do not believe in free will. Jews believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine. In that respect I am not a Jew."

Is this Spinoza's God? "I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but I admire even more his contribution to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and body as one, and not two separate things."

Do you believe in immortality? "No. And one life is enough for me."

我是个决定论者，不相信自有意志。犹太人相信自由意志，他们相信人可以决定人生。我反对这一教条。由此观之，我不是个犹太人。

对斯宾喏莎的泛神论很着迷，更钦羡他对现代思想的贡献。他是第一位提出肉体和灵魂合为一体而不可分割的哲学家。

你相信永生吗？“不，一次生命对我来说是足够的。”

"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man."

最美妙的情感活动就是经历神秘。那是站在纯正艺术和科学面前的由衷的情感活动。这种情感很陌生很奇妙，不再惊恐，不再痴迷，视死如油干灯尽，去体会我们脑子不能直接捕捉的美感和庄严。这就是虔诚的信仰。在这种意义上，也只有在这种意义上，我是一个虔诚的有信仰的人。

Science could not accept: a deity who could meddle at whim in the events of his creation. "The main source of the present-day conflicts between the spheres of religion and of science lies in this concept of a personal God,"

科学不能接受的是一个反复无常、爱管闲事的神。现今科学和信仰领域冲突的主要原因在于人格化神这样一个概念。