Einstein, Albert; Carl Seelig;
Ideas and Opinions
Bonanza/Crown/Random House Value Pub, 1966, 384 pages
ISBN 0517003937, 9780517003930
topics: | science | philosophy | biography | history
Thought-provoking essays on diverse topics such as "meaning of life", Jewish and German history, politics and international disarmament, relativity and physics, science and religion, Mahatma Gandhi, etc. CONTENTS Publisher's Note Part I: IDEAS AND OPINIONS Paradise Lost My First Impressions of the USA Reply to the Women of America The World as I See It The Meaning of Life The True Value of a Human Being Good and Evil On Wealth Society and Personality Interviewers Congratulations to a Critic To the Schoolchildren of Japan Message in the Time-Capsule Remarks on Betrand Russell's Theory of Knoweldge A Mathematician's Mind the State and the Individual Conscience Aphorisms for Leo Baeck About Freedom On Academic Freedom Fascism and Science On Freedom Address on Receiving Lord and Taylor Award Modern Inquisitional Methods Human Methods About Religion Religion and Science The Religious Spirit of Science Science and Religion Religion and Science: Irreconcilable? The Need for Ethical Culture About Education The University Courses at Davos Teachers and Pupils Education and Educators Education and World Peace On Education On Classic Literature Ensuring the Future of Mankind Education for Independent Thought About Friends Joseph Popper-Lynkaeus Greeting to George Bernard Shaw In Honor of Arnold Berliner's Seventieth Birthday H.A. Lorentz's Work in the Cause of International Cooperation Address at the Grave of H.A. Lorentz H.A. Lorentz, Creator and Personality Marie Curie in Memoriam Mahatma Gandhi ("Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth." Max Planck in Memoriam MEssage in Honor of Morris Raphael Cohen Part II: ON POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, AND PACIFISM The International of Science A Farewell The Institute of Intellectual Cooperation Thoughts on the World Economic Crisis Production and Purchasing Power Production and Work Address to the Students' Disarmament Meeting The Disarmament Conference of 1932 America and the Disarmament Conference of 1932 The Question of Disarmament Arbitration To Sigmund Freud Peace The Pacifist Problem Compulsory Service Women and War Three Letters to Friends of Peace Active Pacifism Observations on the Present Situation in Europe Germany and France Culture and Prosperity Minorities The Heirs of the Ages The War Is Won, but the Peace Is Not Atomic War or Peace The Military Mentality Exchange of Letters with Members of the Russian Academy On Receiving the One World Award A Message to Intellectuals Why Socialism? National Security The Pursuit of Peace "Culture Must Be One of the Foundations for World Understanding" On the Abolition of the Threat of War Symptoms of Cultural Decay Part III: ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE A Letter to Professor Dr. Hellpach, Minister of State Letter to an Arab The Jewish Community Addresses on Reconstruction in Palestine Working Palestine Jewish Recovery Christianity and Judaism Jewish Ideals Is There a Jewish Point of View? Anti-Semitism and Academic Youth Our Debt to Zionism Why Do They Hate the Jews? The Dispersal of European Jewry The Jews of Israel Part IV: On Germany Manifesto -- March, 1933 Correspondence with the Prussian Academy of Sciences Correspondence with the Bavarian Academy of Sciences A Reply to the Invitation to Participate in a Meeting against Anti-Semitism To the Heroes of the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto Part V: Contributions to Science Introduction by Valentine Bargmann Principles of Theoretical Physics Principles of Research What Is the Theory of Relativity? Geometry and Experience On the Theory of Relativity The Cause of the Formation of Meanders in the Courses of River and the So-called Baer's Law TheMechanics of Newton and Their Influence on the Development of Theoretical Physics On Scientific Truth Johannes Kepler Maxwell's Influence on the Evolution of the Ieda of Physical Reality On the Method of Theoretical Physics The Problem of Space, Ether, and Field in Physics Notes on the Origin of the General Theory of Relativity Physics and Reality The Fundaments of Theoretical Physics The Common Language of Science E=MC² On the Generalized Theory of Gravitation Message to the Italian Society for the Advancement of Science Message on the 410th Anniversary of the Death of Copernicus Relativity and the Problem of Space
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