为什么《爱因斯坦文集》说：任何宗教如果有可以和现代科学共依共存的，那就是佛教。”

还说：“佛教是一切科学的源动力”。他在自传中还谈到，他不是一名宗教徒，但如果是的话，他愿成为一名佛教徒。

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. "Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism."- Albert Einstein

[1954, from Albert Einstein:The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press]

出自1954年普林斯顿大学出版社出版的《Albert Einstein: The Human Side》一书