See Bucky and Weakland pp. 85 - 87. This book contains the record of various conversations between Bucky and Einstein over a thirty year period.
BUCKY:
It's ironic that your name has been synonymous with science in the twentieth century, and yet there has always been a lot of controversy surrounding you in relation to religious questions. How do you account for this unusual circumstance, since science and religion are usually thought to be at odds?
EINSTEIN:
Well, I do not think that it is necessarily the case that science and religion are natural opposites. In fact, I think that there is a very close connection between the two. Further, I think that science without religion is lame and, conversely, that religion without science is blind. Both are important and should work hand-in-hand. It seems to mc that whoever doesn't wonder about the truth in religion and in science might as well be dead.
Dec. 22, 2010
Ruby Amatulla
Dhaka
I do not agree with many of Einstein’s understanding about religion and God. But this quotation is good with respect to truth.
Essentially the quest for religion or finding an answer about this reality or realm is a quest for truth. In order to know God we need to search His truth. Generally science often provide the answers from the point of “HOW” things work in the universe. Religion answers it from the point “WHY”. Science can never answer ‘why’ things behave the way they do. Religion does. Therefore science without religion is only ‘how’ without ‘why’ and therefore ‘lame’ or insufficient.
On the other hand if a religion does not induce an inquiry about how things work in God’s universe and know things about His creation then the religion and goes about certain dogmas and rituals then the religion is basically blind. In its blindness it does not want to know God’s creation as science answers it.