text: did einstein, the smartest man that ever lived, believe in god? i heard that he did..interesting. yes, but not the christian god.  he was a pantheist (believing, to put it simply, that nature itself is god and there is no supernatural being seperate from it).  he worshipped the beauty and perfection of the cosmos rather than any particular deity.  in his own words:"a knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestation of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this sense alone, i am a deeply religious man."  he actually hated it when people thought that he was religious in a traditional christian sense, saying: "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."