Religion in particular lends itself to compartmentalization; people can require rigorous standards in everyday life and then proudly abandon them when thinking about a higher power.

One of the many things that Einstein accomplished was to break down compartmentalized walls of scientific positivism. Emotional responses to human experience, such as expressed by “love” or “hate” and “fear,” etc., as well as certain religious “beliefs,” are part of our emotively “scientific” project as human beings. As Antonio Damasio eloquently describes, human “reason” derives from human “feelings,” not vice versa.

There will always be mysteries, unknowns, and so there will always be something akin to emotional “religions” in various cultural forms, if perhaps tamed a little, or articulated more inclusively, by scientific knowledge that is not so self-certain as it was before Einstein, Heisenberg and others added their two cents to this ongoing, infinite dialogue.