topics: |  science | philosophy | biography | history

Thought-provoking essays on diverse topics such as "meaning of life", Jewish
and German history, politics and international disarmament, relativity and
physics, science and religion, Mahatma Gandhi, etc.

CONTENTS
Publisher's Note

Part I: IDEAS AND OPINIONS
    Paradise Lost
    My First Impressions of the USA
    Reply to the Women of America
    The World as I See It
    The Meaning of Life
    The True Value of a Human Being
    Good and Evil
    On Wealth
    Society and Personality
    Interviewers
    Congratulations to a Critic
    To the Schoolchildren of Japan
    Message in the Time-Capsule
    Remarks on Betrand Russell's Theory of Knoweldge
    A Mathematician's Mind
    the State and the Individual Conscience
    Aphorisms for Leo Baeck
About Freedom
    On Academic Freedom
    Fascism and Science
    On Freedom
    Address on Receiving Lord and Taylor Award
    Modern Inquisitional Methods
    Human Methods
About Religion
    Religion and Science
    The Religious Spirit of Science
    Science and Religion
    Religion and Science: Irreconcilable?
    The Need for Ethical Culture
About Education
    The University Courses at Davos
    Teachers and Pupils
    Education and Educators
    Education and World Peace
    On Education
    On Classic Literature
    Ensuring the Future of Mankind
    Education for Independent Thought
About Friends
    Joseph Popper-Lynkaeus
    Greeting to George Bernard Shaw
    In Honor of Arnold Berliner's Seventieth Birthday
    H.A. Lorentz's Work in the Cause of International Cooperation
    Address at the Grave of H.A. Lorentz
    H.A. Lorentz, Creator and Personality
    Marie Curie in Memoriam
    Mahatma Gandhi ("Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one
	    as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth."
    Max Planck in Memoriam
    MEssage in Honor of Morris Raphael Cohen

Part II: ON POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, AND PACIFISM
    The International of Science
    A Farewell
    The Institute of Intellectual Cooperation
    Thoughts on the World Economic Crisis
    Production and Purchasing Power
    Production and Work
    Address to the Students' Disarmament Meeting
    The Disarmament Conference of 1932
    America and the Disarmament Conference of 1932
    The Question of Disarmament
    Arbitration
    To Sigmund Freud
    Peace
    The Pacifist Problem
    Compulsory Service
    Women and War
    Three Letters to Friends of Peace
    Active Pacifism
    Observations on the Present Situation in Europe
    Germany and France
    Culture and Prosperity
    Minorities
    The Heirs of the Ages
    The War Is Won, but the Peace Is Not
    Atomic War or Peace
    The Military Mentality
    Exchange of Letters with Members of the Russian Academy
    On Receiving the One World Award
    A Message to Intellectuals
    Why Socialism?
    National Security
    The Pursuit of Peace
    "Culture Must Be One of the Foundations for World Understanding"
    On the Abolition of the Threat of War
    Symptoms of Cultural Decay

Part III: ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE
    A Letter to Professor Dr. Hellpach, Minister of State
    Letter to an Arab
    The Jewish Community
    Addresses on Reconstruction in Palestine
    Working Palestine
    Jewish Recovery
    Christianity and Judaism
    Jewish Ideals
    Is There a Jewish Point of View?
    Anti-Semitism and Academic Youth
    Our Debt to Zionism
    Why Do They Hate the Jews?
    The Dispersal of European Jewry
    The Jews of Israel

Part IV: On Germany
    Manifesto -- March, 1933
    Correspondence with the Prussian Academy of Sciences
    Correspondence with the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
    A Reply to the Invitation to Participate in a Meeting against Anti-Semitism
    To the Heroes of the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto

Part V: Contributions to Science
    Introduction by Valentine Bargmann
    Principles of Theoretical Physics
    Principles of Research
    What Is the Theory of Relativity?
    Geometry and Experience
    On the Theory of Relativity
    The Cause of the Formation of Meanders in the Courses of River and the So-called Baer's Law
    TheMechanics of Newton and Their Influence on the Development of Theoretical Physics
    On Scientific Truth
    Johannes Kepler
    Maxwell's Influence on the Evolution of the Ieda of Physical Reality
    On the Method of Theoretical Physics
    The Problem of Space, Ether, and Field in Physics
    Notes on the Origin of the General Theory of Relativity
    Physics and Reality
    The Fundaments of Theoretical Physics
    The Common Language of Science
    E=MC²
    On the Generalized Theory of Gravitation
    Message to the Italian Society for the Advancement of Science
    Message on the 410th Anniversary of the Death of Copernicus
    Relativity and the Problem of Space

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