Albert Einstein birth anniversary: When the father of physics and Tagore debated science and religion

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On his 144th birth anniversary, we bring to you a scintillating conversation that Einstein had with India's Rabindranath Tagore about the age-old debate between science and religion...

Born on March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is considered the father of modern-day physics and is credited for revolutionary theories that have helped science explore the boundaries of the cosmos...

It was in July 1930 when Einstein hosted India's Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore at his home in Berlin where they talked about the age-old debate between science and religion..

The entire universe is linked up with us in a similar manner, it is a human universe. I have pursued this thought through art, literature, and the religious consciousness of man," Tagore told Einstein...

Einstein quipped that there are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe, which state that the world is a unity dependent on humanity and the world as a reality independent of the human factor..