Albert Einstein was one of the first thinkers who recognized that the dogmas science had distance people from their natural connection with their inner nature and the surrounding cosmos. He spent most of his adult life, trying to bridge the divide between science and religion.

Einstein Quotes

These are some of Einstein's thoughts are religion, science and how to free your mind.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Reality in physics, the distinction between path, present and future, is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure personages is the only thing that can lead us to find ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always irresistibly tempts its owner to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi with the moneybags of Carnegie?

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.