"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion.

It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology.

Covering both the natural and the spiritual,

it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things,

natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.

Buddhism answers this description."

Albert Einstein, TIME's Man of the Century

Great quote! I'm new to the board, so this is prolly an old topic- but many aspects of Buddhism are spot on scientifically. Meditation, in particular, is likely to become very fashionable in the next decade or so, when much fo the research currently being conducted gets published.

I should like to add this quote by the philosopher Schopenhauer:

'If I am to take the results of my philosophy as the standard of truth,I should be obliged to concede to Buddhism the preeminence over the rest.'

Arthur Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena:Short Philosophical Essays,vol 2.

"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion.

It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology.

I haven't seen this particular quote before but Einstein is often quoted as saying that he considered "god" to be all the natural laws that govern the cosmos.

Carl Sagan was at least an agnostic and most probably an atheist, but he seemed to think that Hinduism was closest to getting it right on cosmology. He was generally critical of Christian Creationists and of "religious bureaucrats" everywhere, but I don't recall him ever saying a bad word about Buddhism - probably because it had no inerrant doctrine and therefore no need to suppress/reject scientific knowledge.