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245 _aIdeas and opinions by Albert Einstein
_ctranslated and revised by Sonja Bargmann
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bRupa Publications,
_c1979.
300 _a377 p.
500 _aThe book is based on Mein Weltbild, edited by Carl Seeing, and other sources
505 _ai'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
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