Einstein on Peace“Einstein was not only the ablest man of science of his generation, he was also a wise man, which is something different. If statesmen had listened to him, the course of human events would have been less disastrous than it has been.” This verdict, from the Preface by Bertrand Russell, sums up the importance of this first collection of Albert Einstein’s writings on war, peace, and the atom bomb. In this volume, thanks to the Estate of Albert Einstein, the complete story is told of how one of the greatest minds of modern times worked from 1914 until 1955 on the problem of peace. It is a fascinating record of a man’s courage, his sincerity, and his concern for those who survive him. This book is also a history of the peace movement in modern times. Here are letters to and from some of the most famous men of his generation, including the correspondence between Einstein and Sigmund Freud on aggression and war, and the true story of his famous letter to President Roosevelt reporting the theoretical possibility of nuclear fission. It is the living record of more than forty years of Einstein’s untiring struggle to mobilize forces all over the world for the abolition of war and the creation of a supranational organization to solve conflicts among nations. |
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... one's work in physics. Despite outward unity and suppression of dissent, discontent with the war smoldered among the German people throughout 1916 and 1917, although it could not find an effective political expression. The Russian ...
... one's work in physics. Despite outward unity and suppression of dissent, discontent with the war smoldered among the German people throughout 1916 and 1917, although it could not find an effective political expression. The Russian ...
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... one's own personal desires and judgments. How can we achieve this goal? What has been attained so far? What must still be done? The old society of class rule has been abolished. It fell of its own sins and by the liberating acts of the ...
... one's own personal desires and judgments. How can we achieve this goal? What has been attained so far? What must still be done? The old society of class rule has been abolished. It fell of its own sins and by the liberating acts of the ...
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... , which has been entangled in their struggles, emerges, like them, fallen from her high estate. Arise! Let us free the mind from these compromises, from these unworthy alliances, from these veiled slaveries! Mind is no one's servitor.
... , which has been entangled in their struggles, emerges, like them, fallen from her high estate. Arise! Let us free the mind from these compromises, from these unworthy alliances, from these veiled slaveries! Mind is no one's servitor.
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Albert Einstein Otto Nathan. alliances, from these veiled slaveries! Mind is no one's servitor. It is we who are the servitors of the mind. We have no other master. We exist to bear its light, to defend its light, to rally round it all ...
Albert Einstein Otto Nathan. alliances, from these veiled slaveries! Mind is no one's servitor. It is we who are the servitors of the mind. We have no other master. We exist to bear its light, to defend its light, to rally round it all ...
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... one's true friends from the rest. Strange how every judgment in these times is based upon political criteria! By fall the situation had grown so bad that Ehrenfest was again considering ways and means of getting Einstein out of Germany ...
... one's true friends from the rest. Strange how every judgment in these times is based upon political criteria! By fall the situation had grown so bad that Ehrenfest was again considering ways and means of getting Einstein out of Germany ...
Contents
CHAPTER SIXTHE EVE OF FASCISM IN GERMANY | |
CHAPTER SEVENADVENT OF NAZISM AND ADVOCACY | |
CHAPTER EIGHTARRIVAL IN AMERICA | |
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CHAPTER NINEBIRTH OF THE ATOMIC AGE 1939 | |
CHAPTER TENTHE SECOND WORLD WAR 19391945 | |
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