What does "God is subtle, but He is not malicious" mean? [closed]

What does the phrase "God is subtle, but He is not malicious" mean?

I've read an answer here, but it doesn't seem to be clear enough.

Solution 1:

This is a quote attributed to Albert Einstein.

(The following quotes are taken from above wikipedia article.)

His actual words were:

"Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist er nicht".

Translations include:

God is subtle but he is not malicious. (stated above)

Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.

God is slick, but He ain’t mean.

Einstein's own explanation of his statement was:

"Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse".

The context:

Originally said to Princeton University mathematics professor Oscar Veblen, May 1921, while Einstein was in Princeton for a series of lectures, upon hearing that an experimental result by Dayton C. Miller of Cleveland, if true, would contradict his theory of gravitation.

Summary:

Some say by this remark Einstein meant that Nature hides her secrets by being subtle, while others say he meant that nature is mischievous but not bent on trickery.

Solution 2:

I believe Einstein's meaning was that God can make the universe work in complex and subtle ways, but not with the intention of deceiving us.

Quantum physics might seem like a practical joke on God's part, but Einstein says that the failure to understand is ours, and not an attempt to trick us.

Solution 3:

Einstein seemed to have an unbending faith in a ‘God’ who determined the laws of Nature.

His statements about ‘God’, however, refer not to a Biblical character or a man with a white beard, but to something inherent to Nature’s laws which is ‘good and divine’ but beyond our understanding.

His statements about God are, in my opinion as a physicist, expressions that there are some reasons why — although we don’t properly understand them yet — that the laws of Nature are particularly simple and understandable.

His references to ‘everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler’ is a statement of this, followed by a joke!

‘God is subtle but not malicious’ is a way to urge people to continue to look for simple explanations of apparently complicated phenomenon, but not to try too hard; that is, not to look for over-complicated explanations.

Einstein’s expressions of his philosophy are, in common with Newton’s, simply a desire to express that they have done nothing particularly clever, but that Nature is simple — and that the rest of us can discover her secrets, too!