All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a Germany-born theoretical physicist who revolutionized scientific thought with new theories of space, time, mass, motion, and gravitation. A 1921 Nobel Prize winner and considered by many to be the greatest scientist of the twentieth century, Einstein also held a central belief in the need for humanity in science and in the application of reason and compassion to curb the dangerous excesses of human ambition.