To many, Albert Einstein is an iconic figure. Scientist. Humanist. German-accent-ist.
But he also had the spirit of the traveler, evident in his essay “The World As I See It.”
On being a lone traveler:
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a ‘lone traveler’ and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude…
On the pursuit of happiness: