David Brooks concludes his column with this sentence:
Or, as Albert Einstein put it, "You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."
I challenge Mr. Brooks to cite the original source of Einstein saying this in the words that are in the quotation marks. I think it is a bogus quote. Einstein may have said similar things, but I don't think he ever wrote or said the words that Brooks quotes him as saying. If Mr. Brooks can come up with a proper citation, giving the time, place, and source for Einstein saying this, I will happily apologize, but until he does, I think he has fallen for a phony Einstein quote.