The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

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Overview

The most comprehensive collection of Einstein quotations ever published

Here is the definitive new edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five languages.

The Ultimate Quotable Einstein features 400 additional quotes, bringing the total to roughly 1,600 in all. This ultimate edition includes new sections—"On and to Children," "On Race and Prejudice," and "Einstein's Verses: A Small Selection"—as well as a chronology of Einstein’s life and accomplishments, Freeman Dyson’s authoritative foreword, and new commentary by Alice Calaprice.

In The Ultimate Quotable Einstein, readers will also find quotes by others about Einstein along with quotes attributed to him. Every quotation in this informative and entertaining collection is fully documented, and Calaprice has carefully selected new photographs and cartoons to introduce each section.

  • Features 400 additional quotations
  • Contains roughly 1,600 quotations in all
  • Includes new sections on children, race and prejudice, and Einstein’s poetry
  • Provides new commentary
  • Beautifully illustrated
  • The most comprehensive collection of Einstein quotes ever published

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691207292
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/31/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 608
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Alice Calaprice is a renowned expert on Albert Einstein and was a longtime senior editor at Princeton University Press. She has worked with the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein since the founding of the project, has copyedited and overseen the production of all the volumes, and administered the accompanying translation series with a grant from the National Science Foundation. She is the author of several popular books on Einstein and was a recipient of the Literary Market Place's award for individual achievement in scholarly editing.

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Freeman Dyson ix

A (long) note about this final edition xvii

A brief chronology xxv





THE QUOTATIONS

On Einstein Himself 1

On and to His Family 29

On Aging 53

On America and Americans 61

On and to Children 75

On Death 89

On Education, Students, and Academic Freedom 97

On and to Friends, Specifi c Scientists, and Others 111

On Germans and Germany 159

On Humankind 171

On Jews, Israel, Judaism, and Zionism 191

On Life 227

On Music 233

On Pacifi sm, Disarmament, and World Government 243

On Peace, War, the Bomb, and the Military 261

On Politics, Patriotism, and Government 287

On Race and Prejudice 309

On Religion, God, and Philosophy 319

On Science and Scientists, Mathematics, and

Technology 347





On Miscellaneous Subjects 411

Abortion, Achievement, Ambition, Animals/Pets, Art and Science, Astrology, Birth Control, Birthdays, Books, Causality, China and the Chinese, Christmas, Clarity, Class, Clothes, Competition, Comprehensibility, Compromise, Conscience, Creativity, Crises, Curiosity, Death Penalty, Doctors, England, the English, and the English Language, Epistemology, Flying Saucers and Extraterrestrials, Force, Games, Good Acts, Graphology, Home, Homosexuality, Immigrants, Individuals/Individuality, Intelligence, Intuition, Invention, Italy and the Italians, Japan and the Japanese, Knowledge, Love, Marriage, Materialism, Miracles, Morality, Mysticism, Nature, Pipe Smoking, Posterity, The Press, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, Public Speaking, Rickshaw Pullers, Sailing, Sculpture, Sex Education, Success, Thinking, Truth, Vegetarianism, Violence, Wealth, Wisdom, Women, Work, Youth

Einstein's Verses: A Small Selection 461

Attributed to Einstein 471

Others on Einstein 487





Bibliography 547

Index of Key Words 557

Subject Index 563


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