You are right that I should have reiterated that there are no direct quotations from Einstein on evolution, but rather quotations about G-d and the universe and random chance from which one could possibly (likely in my opinion) infer that he was talking at least in part about evolution. Actually find it interesting that Einstein never did talk about evolution explicitly; maybe the debate over it was too politicized for his tastes even back then?
I think, if we remember that Einstein grew up in a Newtonian world, where simple scientific formulas could describe many natural processes, then we can imagine what a leap of understanding Einstein's own Relativity theory was to Einstein himself.
So, add to Relativity, Max Planck's Quantum Mechanics, plus Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, and even a genius like Einstein could struggle the rest of his life to find a unifying principle, without success.
Today, on top of Relativity and Uncertainty, we add in Chaos Theory, with its "butterfly effects" and "strange attractors", and physics itself descending into multiple new dimensions with strings, soups, loops, branes and multi-verses...
"Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine." -- Heisenberg
To which I might add: Not only is its Creator greater than we imagine, He is greater than we can imagine.
(Bohemian Gravity)
