Yes, beliefs such as that the universe exists and obeys consistent laws which can be discovered through evidence and logic are statements of faith, when considered as axioms.ant wrote:Einstein's universal axiom is presupposed and based on nothing more than faith:
Faith laws are constant universally
Faith the universe is comprehensible
Einstein expanded on his views on faith in a credo available at http://www.einstein-website.de/z_biography/credo.html
Albert Einstein wrote:The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as of all serious endeavour in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all there is."
