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First Kid Picked (via Sci-ence)

“Everybody wants Einstein on their team. Why not? It says good things about your team to have Einstein on it. This posthumous playground metaphor can be observed in arguments over whether he was an atheist or a deist, quote launching contests where he is shown to be either critical or favoring of religion, whether or not he had a last minute deathbed conversion to the jeebus (please), and, in the parlance of our social media times, facebook chain letters that portray him as taking down some smug, anonymous, atheist professor…

People love these stories. It puts one of the smartest people to have ever lived on their team. It implies that they, too, are smart…

It’s irrelevant whether he may or may not maybe sorta kinda entertained the idea of a greater power or not. We’re not going to have that discussion here, anyway. Whatever his beliefs were, it never superseded his work as a physicist*. His concerns were that of the material world. I don’t care if Einstein had the Dalai Lama tattooed on his forehead. It doesn’t make him Buddhism’s champion.”

(Source: bluedogeyes)

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