The quotable Einstein
by Albert Einstein, Alice Calaprice · first published 1996
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Albert Einstein was a prolific - and often thoughtful and gifted - writer, and he is immensely quotable. This collection of approximately 550 quotations by and about Einstein for the first time arranges his thoughts and ideas thematically. Here we can easily find Einstein's thoughts on everything from America and Americans, Germans and Germany, Jews and Zionism, war and peace, politics, religion, and science to more personal subjects, such as abortion, youth and aging, love and marriage, music, and pets. There is something to please everyone - and something to offend everyone. Also included a
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