Ideas And OpinionsA collection of insightful and thought provoking essays from one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century 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. |
Contents
Paradise Lost | 3 |
The Meaning of Life | 11 |
Congratulations to a Critic | 17 |
A Mathematicians Mind | 25 |
On Freedom | 31 |
Thoughts on the World Economic | 40 |
8 | 53 |
83 | 65 |
A Letter to Professor Dr Hell | 171 |
Working Palestine | 183 |
ManifestoMarch 1933 | 205 |
Introduction by Valentine | 217 |
Principles of Research | 224 |
Geometry and Experience | 232 |
On the Theory of Relativity | 246 |
The Mechanics of Newton | 253 |
Address at the Grave of H | 73 |
America and the Disarmament | 100 |
Observations on the Present | 111 |
Atomic War or Peace | 118 |
The Military Mentality | 132 |
On Scientific Truth | 261 |
CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE | 270 |
227 | 282 |
Relativity and the Problem | 360 |
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