In a 1954 letter, he wrote, "
I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly." In a letter to philosopher Erik Gutkind, Einstein remarked, "
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."
Repeated attempts by the press to present Albert Einstein as a religious man provoked the following statement:
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. 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.
—Albert Einstein