Ideas and opinions by Albert Einstein
Ideas and opinions by Albert Einstein
translated and revised by Sonja Bargmann
- New Delhi: Rupa Publications, 1979.
- 377 p.
The book is based on Mein Weltbild, edited by Carl Seeing, and other sources
i'aradise Lost
PART I: IDEAS AND OPINIONS
My Pint Impresuons of the
U. S. A.
Reply to the Women of America
The World as I See It
Hie Meaning of Life
The True Value of a Human
Being
Good and Evil
On Wealth
Sodety 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
About Freedom
On Aademic Freedom
Fascism and Science
On Freedom
Address on Receiving Lord &
Taylor Award
Modem Inquisitional Methods
Human Rights
About Religion
Religion and Science
PART H: ON POLITICS,
The International of Science
A Farewell
The Institute of Intellectual
Cooperation
Thoughts on the World Economic
Crisis
Production and Purchasing Power
Froduaion and Work
Address to the Students' Dis
armament Meeting
The Disarmament Conference of
19S2
The Religious Spirit of Sdenoe 40
Science and Religion 41
Religion and Science: Iriecon-
dUble? 49
The Need for Ethical Culture 59
About Educatioo
The Univenity Courses at Davos 64
Teachers and Pupils 56
Education and Educators 56
Edumtion and World Peace 57
On Education 59
On Classic Literature 64
Ensuring the Future of Mankind 65
Education for Independent
Thought 66
About Friends
Joseph Popper-Lynkaeus 67
Greeting to George Bernard Shaw 68
In Honor of Arnold Berliner's
Seventieth Birthday 68
H. A. Lorentz's Work in the Cause
of International Cooperation 70
Address at the Grave of H. A.
Lorentz 79
H. A. Lorentz, Creator and
Personality 79
Marie Curie in Manorlam 76
Mahatma Gandhi 77
Max Planck in Memoriam 78
Message in Honor of Moirii
Raphael Cohen 79
GOVERNMENT, AND PACIFISM
Ameri^ and the Disarmament
Conference of 1992 100
The Question of Disarmament 102
Arbitration 109
To Sigmund Freud 104
Peace 106
The Pacifist Problem 106
Compulsory Service 107
Women and War 108
Three Letters toFriendsofPeace 108
95 Active Pacifism 110
Observatfons on the Present
Situation in Europe 111
Germany and France 112
Culture and Prosperity 112
Minorities II3
The Heirs of the Ages 114
The War Is Won, hut the Peace
Is Not 115
Atomic War or Peace 118
The Military Mentality 132
Exchange of Letters with Mem
bers of the Russian Academy 134
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 Un
derstanding"
On the Abolition of the Threat
of War
Symptoms of Cultural Decay
PART III: ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE
A Letter to Professor Dr. Hell-
pach. Minister of State
Letter to an Arab
The Jewish Community
Addresses on Reconstruction in
Palestine
Working Palestine
Jewish Recovery
Christianity and Judaism
Jewish Ideals 185
Is There a Jewish Point of View? 185
Anti-Semitism and Academic
Youth 187
Our Debt to Zionism 188
Why Do They Hate the Jews? 191
The Dispersal of European Jewry J98
The Jews of Israel 200
PART IV: ON GERMANY
Manifesto—March, 1933 205
Correspondence with the Prussian
Academy of Sciences 205
Correspondence with the Bavarian
Academy of Sciences 210
A Reply to the Invitation to
Participate in a Meeting
Against Anti-Semitism 211
To the Heroes of the Battle of
the Warsaw Ghetto 212
PART V: CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE
Introduction, by Valentine
Bargmann
Principles of Theoretical Physics
Principles of Research
What Is the Theory of Rela
tivity?
Geometiy 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 Devel
opment of Theoretical Physics
On Scientific Truth
Johannes Kepler
Maxwell's Influence on the Evo
lution 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 Gen
eral Theory of Relativity
Physics and Reality
The Fundamentals of Theoretical
Physics
• The Common Language of
Science
E = MC
On the Generalized Theory of
Gravitation
Message to the Italian Society for
the Advancement of Science
Message on the 4I0th Anniver
sary of the Death of Copernicus
Relativity and the Problem of Space
9780285647251
Albert Einstein
083.1 / EIN/I
The book is based on Mein Weltbild, edited by Carl Seeing, and other sources
i'aradise Lost
PART I: IDEAS AND OPINIONS
My Pint Impresuons of the
U. S. A.
Reply to the Women of America
The World as I See It
Hie Meaning of Life
The True Value of a Human
Being
Good and Evil
On Wealth
Sodety 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
About Freedom
On Aademic Freedom
Fascism and Science
On Freedom
Address on Receiving Lord &
Taylor Award
Modem Inquisitional Methods
Human Rights
About Religion
Religion and Science
PART H: ON POLITICS,
The International of Science
A Farewell
The Institute of Intellectual
Cooperation
Thoughts on the World Economic
Crisis
Production and Purchasing Power
Froduaion and Work
Address to the Students' Dis
armament Meeting
The Disarmament Conference of
19S2
The Religious Spirit of Sdenoe 40
Science and Religion 41
Religion and Science: Iriecon-
dUble? 49
The Need for Ethical Culture 59
About Educatioo
The Univenity Courses at Davos 64
Teachers and Pupils 56
Education and Educators 56
Edumtion and World Peace 57
On Education 59
On Classic Literature 64
Ensuring the Future of Mankind 65
Education for Independent
Thought 66
About Friends
Joseph Popper-Lynkaeus 67
Greeting to George Bernard Shaw 68
In Honor of Arnold Berliner's
Seventieth Birthday 68
H. A. Lorentz's Work in the Cause
of International Cooperation 70
Address at the Grave of H. A.
Lorentz 79
H. A. Lorentz, Creator and
Personality 79
Marie Curie in Manorlam 76
Mahatma Gandhi 77
Max Planck in Memoriam 78
Message in Honor of Moirii
Raphael Cohen 79
GOVERNMENT, AND PACIFISM
Ameri^ and the Disarmament
Conference of 1992 100
The Question of Disarmament 102
Arbitration 109
To Sigmund Freud 104
Peace 106
The Pacifist Problem 106
Compulsory Service 107
Women and War 108
Three Letters toFriendsofPeace 108
95 Active Pacifism 110
Observatfons on the Present
Situation in Europe 111
Germany and France 112
Culture and Prosperity 112
Minorities II3
The Heirs of the Ages 114
The War Is Won, hut the Peace
Is Not 115
Atomic War or Peace 118
The Military Mentality 132
Exchange of Letters with Mem
bers of the Russian Academy 134
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 Un
derstanding"
On the Abolition of the Threat
of War
Symptoms of Cultural Decay
PART III: ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE
A Letter to Professor Dr. Hell-
pach. Minister of State
Letter to an Arab
The Jewish Community
Addresses on Reconstruction in
Palestine
Working Palestine
Jewish Recovery
Christianity and Judaism
Jewish Ideals 185
Is There a Jewish Point of View? 185
Anti-Semitism and Academic
Youth 187
Our Debt to Zionism 188
Why Do They Hate the Jews? 191
The Dispersal of European Jewry J98
The Jews of Israel 200
PART IV: ON GERMANY
Manifesto—March, 1933 205
Correspondence with the Prussian
Academy of Sciences 205
Correspondence with the Bavarian
Academy of Sciences 210
A Reply to the Invitation to
Participate in a Meeting
Against Anti-Semitism 211
To the Heroes of the Battle of
the Warsaw Ghetto 212
PART V: CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE
Introduction, by Valentine
Bargmann
Principles of Theoretical Physics
Principles of Research
What Is the Theory of Rela
tivity?
Geometiy 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 Devel
opment of Theoretical Physics
On Scientific Truth
Johannes Kepler
Maxwell's Influence on the Evo
lution 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 Gen
eral Theory of Relativity
Physics and Reality
The Fundamentals of Theoretical
Physics
• The Common Language of
Science
E = MC
On the Generalized Theory of
Gravitation
Message to the Italian Society for
the Advancement of Science
Message on the 4I0th Anniver
sary of the Death of Copernicus
Relativity and the Problem of Space
9780285647251
Albert Einstein
083.1 / EIN/I