Einstein and his word on God at Christie’s New York
Written just a year before his death in 1955, a famous two-page letter in which Albert Einstein put down his thoughts on religion, his Jewish identity and his own search for the meaning of life sold for $2.4m (£1.89m) in a New York auction on December 4.
Addressed to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, what has come to be known as the ‘God Letter’ was a pri…