Einstein letter doubting God goes under the hammer
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Einstein letter doubting God goes under the hammer
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Wed, 12/05/2018 - 15:26
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File: The letter was previously sold to a private collector.
NEW YORK - A handwritten letter by Albert Einstein in which the physicist doubts the existence of God was auctioned Tuesday for $2.89 million.
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It was a record for an Einstein letter and far surpassed its estimated value of $1-1,5 million (R13,77- 20,6 million), Christie's said.
A 1939 letter in which Einstein warned then-president Franklin D Roosevelt about Germany's atom bomb preparations was auctioned for $2,1-million (R28,9-million) in 2002.
In the letter sold on Tuesday, dated 1954 and written in German to philosopher Eric Gutkind, Einstein said he did not believe in God.
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"The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses," Einstein wrote.
"The Bible, a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends."
The letter was last sold in 2008 to a private collector for $404,000 (R5,5-million) Christie's said.
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