Einstein's god

Albert Einstein disclosed his views on religion, morality, ethics, war, and numerous other topics unrelated to his special area of expertise (physics) in his autobiography, The World As I See It. His view of religiousness and God are best captured in a few key quotes:

"A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man."

"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. "

"The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."

All of these are expressions of a sort of pantheistic concept of godliness - that what we call god is present in the "logos", wisdom, and emergent order of the universe. He does not ascribe its origin or operation to any sort of willful being or anthropomorphic intelligence. He stands in rapt awe of that which cannot be expressed in words or thought of by our limited human capacity.