The Ultimate Quotable Einstein »

Alice Calaprice is a renowned expert on Albert Einstein and was a longtime senior editor at Princeton University Press. She has worked on the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein since the founding of the project, has copyedited all the volumes including the translation series, and is the author of several popular books on Einstein.

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

David E. Rowe - Times Higher Education Supplement

Praise for previous editions: "Equations and texts are . . . Einstein's true monument, and Calaprice lays out a veritable feast of pithy and telling aphorisms drawn from his speeches and letters. . . . They reveal a private Einstein who never strove for the monumental phrase but was able to deliver it in a seemingly effortless off-the-cuff manner.

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