Albert Einstein o nauce, jej funkcjach i celach

The article attempts to reconstruct in short Einstein’s views on the most important features of science and its functions and aims. The author presents Einstein’s views on the essence of education, his visions of the authentic scientist capable of creating science, the conception grasping science as intellectual activity, the essence of which is the purely cognitive function. Then the most significant cognitive and practical functions and aims of science, as viewed by Einstein, are presented.