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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... physicist throughout the scientific world. His Berlin appointment was in itself a signal honor. Famous scholars had come to Zürich to woo him away from the Institute of Technology, where he was then teaching. In his new position he was ...
... physicist throughout the scientific world. His Berlin appointment was in itself a signal honor. Famous scholars had come to Zürich to woo him away from the Institute of Technology, where he was then teaching. In his new position he was ...
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... physicist teaching at the University of Leiden in Holland, one of Einstein's closest and dearest friends.{2} In his letter of August 19, 1914, Einstein said: Europe, in her insanity, has started something unbelievable. In such times one ...
... physicist teaching at the University of Leiden in Holland, one of Einstein's closest and dearest friends.{2} In his letter of August 19, 1914, Einstein said: Europe, in her insanity, has started something unbelievable. In such times one ...
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... physicist and Nobel Prize winner H. A. Lorentz. The precise nature of the proposal is not known, but it was probably aimed at enlisting scientists from neutral countries in the cause of peace and may have been connected with The Hague ...
... physicist and Nobel Prize winner H. A. Lorentz. The precise nature of the proposal is not known, but it was probably aimed at enlisting scientists from neutral countries in the cause of peace and may have been connected with The Hague ...
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... physicists and pure scientists are tolerant; the historians and literary men are delirious with patriotic passion. As for the great mass of people, they are completely submissive and primarily interested in their own affairs—domestiqué ...
... physicists and pure scientists are tolerant; the historians and literary men are delirious with patriotic passion. As for the great mass of people, they are completely submissive and primarily interested in their own affairs—domestiqué ...
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... physicist at the École Polytechnique in Paris, thanking him for his letter: I indeed consider it as one of my most sacred duties to do everything that can be done to improve relations among scholars. This is not easy for one who lives ...
... physicist at the École Polytechnique in Paris, thanking him for his letter: I indeed consider it as one of my most sacred duties to do everything that can be done to improve relations among scholars. This is not easy for one who lives ...
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 | |
236 | |
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