It’s also funny seeing as though Einstein was not a religious man. Quote mining is a favorite of the religious.

He wasn't infallible and he knew that better than anybody else..... that's way he kept on looking for whatever until the day he kicked the bucket. Anyhow, gotta say that the purpose of this posting still eludes me. Not even know who this particular Jerry is and I don't feel like Googling right now.

The other half of the quote is " and religion without science is blind"

Einstein understood what authentic religion is all about, and didn’t let that understanding become sullied by those who clung to their childhood interpretations, even if they might have been a majority:

“By his own words in the same essay, Einstein clarified that by religion he meant the pursuit of the highest qualities of an individual - a striving to improve one's thoughts, speech, actions, and so on.  It was about overcoming the smallness of individualistic and petty thinking and cultivating a more expansive, 'enlightened', state. Einstein's point was that he thought personal development should go hand in hand with scientific progress - people who strive to understand the universe should also look to improving the character through which the universe is experienced.”

There’s nothing unscientific about that.

Spot the theist astroturfers. There are some on this site too.

"I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind." Einstein's god was nature.

I like Neils Bohr's reputed repartee with Einstein:

Einstein's asserted that "God doesn't play dice"
Bohr..."Stop telling God what to do with his dice"

I always have trouble accepting rhetorical ethos as useful when the statement in question exists outside the field of specialty of the person in question. For example: why does Jenny McCarthy's stance on vaccinations matter? Does she have some medical degree I never heard about? And honestly, speaking from personal experience dealing with/being people with significantly above average IQs, odds are good any philosophical position taken is possibly the result of many years of fairly diagonal thinking which, upon scrutiny, are not universally useful or accessible as public philosophical leaning. And Albert Einstein is one of those people who exist as a benchmark for excessively above average IQ. Given that, the inner workings of his mind may well have been incomprehensibly complex to any but the smartest of individuals, and so any pronouncement regarding the interplay of, for example, spirituality and science, may be perfectly logical within the framework of his or similar minds but still appear to be complete nonsense to everyone else. I personally agree with my own interpretation of the statement, for a very specific definition of the word religion (which isn't the word I would use to describe the idea, so it's possible I don't agree with him, but as his terms are undefined I can only work with my interpretation of the words.)

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." You have to use the full quote to understand what Einstein was trying to say. What Einstein was trying to say will continue to be a topic of debate. As an agnostic I can appreciate it. I don't think science has the ability to prove each and every single thing. There is always going to be a place for Wonder ,and the appreciation of things that are intangible.

A few months ago I made a post on the very same thing, pointing out that the word "ethics" should be substituted for "religion". I don't know the source of this particular quote, but elsewhere I have seen him quoted that religion is childish, which contradicts his apparent high regard of religion here.

I have posted some of his quotes, but I know that he was not infallible. However, nearly all of the founders of modern physics were deeply religious in a certain way. What I conclude is that it’s not necessarily a dumb, ridiculous thing to be a non-atheist.

51% of scientists believe in God,
41% Don’t.

[pewforum.org]

One of Einstein's most eagerly quoted remarks by Xtains is "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"; But he also said, "It was of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being 'systematically' repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." -Albert Einstein-

That is my usual response to inane comments like that.