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My Posts This: Topic Forum | I'll dig up the links to some of his quotes (and a few from other surprising sources too) after I get back from the field. I've got a new bird to maiden today, and the weather is divine. 
Here's a few to get you started, with references easy to verify:
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."
-- Albert Einstein, as quoted in his obituary by the New York Times, 19 April 1955
"I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."
-- Albert Einstein, 1954, from Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
-- Albert Einstein, "Religion and Science," New York Times Magazine, 9 November 1930
"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion."
-- Albert Einstein (source unknown)
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