Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
~ Albert Einstein,
or / and
“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.”
I think more accurately, Einstein and Hawking’s God is the awe-inspiring and wonder of our extraordinary universe and reality.
It is fascinating, complex, and unique. At the same time, it is meaningless. I can imagine some arguing that labeling it as “meaningless,” detracts from the beauty and wonder of our experience, but I disagree. I feel there is a certain magic to reality having two completely different faces simultaneously. Our entire reality is a paradox, for it is both nothing and everything at the same time, which to me is a story-book ending to a question that has plagued mankind for millenia.
If only one is true then i believe it to be the first one presented.
A) I think it sounds more like what Einstein would say, but then again i could also see both being quotes.
B) As the person who posted this is human they most likely fall into the same habits as most humans when presenting this post, in that they probably got excited an posted pasted in the first one before going to either make up or look up the second quote. This seems even more likely to me because this is not a large list of quotes but instead only two, so the person would not think about disguising the real quotes position among a group of others.
note my above points only apply if only one of the quotes is true