Einstein’s views on religion, spirituality, and God are so seemingly contradictory that, over the years, he’s been held up as everything from a paragon of outright atheism to a model of progressive Judaism (despite writing that „the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions“). Perhaps the single most revealing quote of Einstein’s on the topic is this: „I believe in [Dutch philosopher Baruch de] Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings.“ In the end, though, Einstein’s take on God and the idea (or myth) of an afterlife is irrelevant. The man heightened humanity’s understanding of how the universe works, while deepening our appreciation of the marvelous, challenging, beckoning mysteries that remain.