About the Book
Offering an insight into "Time" magazine's "Man of the Century", Albert Einstein, this text covers topics such as late-20th century research on Einstein's brain, the possible collaboration of his wife Mileva in his work, and the love letters that Einstein sent to an alleged Soviet spy. Einstein continues to be a global icon as we enter the new millennium, and this 2nd-edition text attempts to show us why. The revelation that he was, after all, a human being in his personal life rather than a secular "saint" has detracted neither from his fame nor from his great scientific achievements. Above all, Einstein is shown to be a loyal letter writer, keeping up a lively correspondence with those whom he loved and respected, and expressing an opinion on just about everything and everyone, including himself.
Table of Contents:
FOREWORD, BY FREEMAN DYSON ix PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii A NOTE ABOUT THE EXPANDED EDITION xxv EINSTEIN FAMILY TREE xxxi CHRONOLOGY xxxiii THE QUOTATIONS On Einstein Himself 3 On His Family 23 On America and Americans 49 On Death 59 On Education and Academic Freedom 65 On Friends, Specific Scientists, and Others 73 On Germans and Germany 105 On Humankind 113 On Jews, Israel, Judaism, and Zionism 123 On Life 145 On Music 151 On Pacifism 159 On Peace, War, the Bomb. and the Military 169 On Politics, Patriotism, and Government 187 On Religion, God, and Philosophy 199 On Science and Scientists, Mathematics, and Technology 223 On Miscellaneous Subjects 265 Abortion, Achievement, Aging, Ambition, Animals/Pets, Art and Science, Astrology, Authority, Birth Control, Birthdays, Blacks/ Racism/Slavery, Books, Causality, Clarity, Clothes, Competition, Comprehensibility, Conformity, Conscience, Creativity, Criminals, Curiosity, Death Penalty, The English and the English Language, Epistemology, Flying Saucers, Force, Games, Good Acts, Home, Homosexuality, Individuals/Individuality, Intelligence, Intuition, Italy and the Italians, Japan and the Japanese, Lies, Love, Marriage, Materialism, Miracles, Morality, The Mysterious, Mysticism, Pipe Smoking, Posterity, Prejudice, The Press, Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, Rickshaw Pullers, Sailing, Sculpture, Sex Education, Success, Superstition, Thinking, Tolerance, Truth, Vegetarianism, Violence, Wealth, Wisdom, Women, Work, Youth Attributed to Einstein 311 Others on Einstein 323 Answers to the Most Common Nonscientific Questions about Einstein 349 Appendix 367 A Brief Peek into the FBI's Einstein File The Famous Letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt BIBLIOGRAPHY 381 INDEX OF KEY WORDS 387 SUBJECT INDEX 393
About the Author :
Alice Calaprice is a Senior Editor at Princeton University Press, where she has specialized in the sciences and worked with the Einstein Papers for over twenty years. She is the recipient of a Literary Market Place (LMP) Award for Individual Editorial Achievement in Scholarly Publishing and was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for directing the Einstein Translation Project.
Review :
All of us who lack Einstein's intellectual and spiritual gifts owe a debt of gratitude to Princeton University Press for having humanized him in this innovative way. -- Timothy Ferris The New York Times Book Review Masquerading as a quote book, this title may set a new standard for the genre as well as expand the concept. It is filled with the written and spoken thoughts of this cultural icon as well as those merely attributed to him but conveys much more than a traditional collection of sayings might. The Bloomsbury Review This fascinating book reveals Einstein as a fully rounded human, with both a tender and a darker, more brooding side. Physics World The chief value of this collection of [Einstein's] more memorable observations on the events of the 20th century and his own part in them is that it reveals the development of the person as well as that of the scientist. [The Quotable Einstein] is something of a triumph. New Scientist
