So, there are so many interpretations of what he said, and multiple instances of using his name for support of views held in papers. But what did he really mean half the time. The Einstein I know from reading his own words, is one very capable of the creative type of genius that it takes to put forth language with ambiguity. So most often I take his words as not this or that, but shades of grey inbewteen. For example

"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion"

When a life long friend died and he wrote the wife about following after and not being too concerned about it. Most people take it to mean that time is an illusion. This is what the physics of the time, and in majority today as well, support. Yet there is that stubborn part. TO me, it means that time is an illusion, like a ghost labeled time with a board around its neck, but it won't go away. Taken at face value, this is much the same, but what I interpret it as is the illusion of time must itself go away and be replaced by a different view, when the community and physics environment demands it at a later era. And I think it has arrived.

So post his sayings here and roominate on what he meant. A brief statement about the context is desirable, so readers unfamiliar with the quotes now in what situation it was said. But don't MLA or APA cite it or anything.

I look forward to hearing interpretations of what the spendid fellow and human being had to say.