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Albert Einstein letter doubting God auctioned for $2.89m
A handwritten letter by Albert Einstein in which the physicist doubts the existence of God was auctioned on Tuesday for $ 2 . 89 million .
It was a record for an Einstein letter and far surpassed its estimated value of $ 1 . 0 -1 . 5 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 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 .
“ 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 , Christie ’ s said .
( AFP)
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