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245 10 a| Ideas and opinions :b| based on Mein Weltbild /c| edited by Carl Seelig, and other sources ; new translations and revisions by Sonja Bargmann.;

300 a| 377 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 22 cm;

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520 a| Here is a new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government.;

505 0 a| 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 Bertrand Russell's theory of knowledge -- A mathematician's mind -- The state and the individual conscience -- Aphorisms for Leo Baeck -- On academic freedom -- Fascism and science -- On freedom -- Address on receiving Lord & Taylor award -- Modern Inquisitional methods -- Human rights -- Religion and science -- The religious spirit of science -- Science and religion -- Religion and science: Irreconcilable? -- The need for ethical culture -- 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 -- 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 -- Maria Curie in memoriam -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Max Planck in memoriam message in honor of Morris -- Raphael Cohen -- 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? -- 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 -- A letter to professor Dr. Hellpach, minister of state -- Letter to an Arab -- The Jewish community -- Address 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 -- 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 -- 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 rivers and of the so-called Baer's law -- The mechanics of Newton and their influence on the development of theoretical physics -- On scientific truth -- Johannes Kepler -- Maxwell's influence on the evolution of the idea of physical reality -- On the method of theoretical physics -- The problem of space, ether, and the 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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Ideas and opinions : based on Mein Weltbild / edited by Carl Seelig, and other sources ; new translations and revisions by Sonja Bargmann.

Author/creator	Einstein, Albert
Other author	Seelig, Carl, 1894-1962, editor.
Other author	Bargmann, Sonja, translator.
Other author	Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Crown Publishers, ©1954.
Description	377 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects	Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. Physics. Science--Philosophy. Peace. Science--Social aspects.

Contents	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 Bertrand Russell's theory of knowledge -- A mathematician's mind -- The state and the individual conscience -- Aphorisms for Leo Baeck -- On academic freedom -- Fascism and science -- On freedom -- Address on receiving Lord & Taylor award -- Modern Inquisitional methods -- Human rights -- Religion and science -- The religious spirit of science -- Science and religion -- Religion and science: Irreconcilable? -- The need for ethical culture -- 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 -- 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 -- Maria Curie in memoriam -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Max Planck in memoriam message in honor of Morris -- Raphael Cohen -- 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? -- 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 -- A letter to professor Dr. Hellpach, minister of state -- Letter to an Arab -- The Jewish community -- Address 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 -- 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 -- 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 rivers and of the so-called Baer's law -- The mechanics of Newton and their influence on the development of theoretical physics -- On scientific truth -- Johannes Kepler -- Maxwell's influence on the evolution of the idea of physical reality -- On the method of theoretical physics -- The problem of space, ether, and the 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
Abstract	Here is a new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government.
Issued in other form	Online version: Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. Ideas and opinions. New York : Crown Publishers, ©1954
LCCN	54006644

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