The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
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Albert Einstein / Alice Calaprice …
简介
This is the definitive 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 roughly 1,600 quotes in all. This paperback edition includes sections unique to the ultimate collection--"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 commentary and descriptive source notes by Alice Calaprice.
目录
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