Neither was he a messenger of God so his opinion regarding religion is irrelevant to the people who follow religion. He was a great scientist and should be respected for that, no doubt.
you are quoting me out of context. if you look at why i posted it like that, you will understand. this guy was using Einstein's quote in favor of religion. I simply told him that was not the case.
anyway, had he been a believer, you would have no doubt mentioned him several times. after all dont we always point to those muslim scientists when we want to pride ourselves that a person could both be a muslim and a scientist.