愛因斯坦對於佛教有如下評價：  

未來的宗教將是一種宇宙宗教。它將是一種超越人格化神，遠離一切教條和神學的宗教。這種宗教，包容自然和精神兩個方面，作爲一個有意義的統一體，必定是建立在由對事物的——無論是精神，還是自然的——實踐與體驗而産生的宗教觀念之上的。佛教符合這種特徵。——愛因斯坦  

原文如下：  

"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. "Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism."- Albert Einstein   

[1954, from Albert Einstein:The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press]  
出自1954年普林斯頓大學出版社出版的《Albert Einstein: The Human Side》一書