Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality Quotes September 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2013 08:02:40PM 6 points [-]

Checking Google failed to yield an original source cited for this quote.

Comment author: Darklight 03 September 2013 08:32:41PM * 14 points [-]

I got it from the biography, "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson, page 393.

The Notes for "Chapter Seventeen: Einstein's God" on page 618 state that the quote comes from:

Einstein to the Rev. Cornelius Greenway, Nov. 20, 1950, AEA 28-894.

Comment author: ESRogs 03 September 2013 10:12:37PM 1 point [-]

Great book, by the way.