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The Expanded Quotable Einstein
Collected and edited by Alice Calaprice
With a foreword by Freeman Dyson

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

FOREWORD, BY FREEMAN DYSON ix
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
A NOTE ABOUT THE EXPANDED EDITION xxv
EINSTEIN FAMILY TREE xxxi
CHRONOLOGY xxxiii
THE QUOTATIONS
On Einstein Himself 3
On His Family 23
On America and Americans 49
On Death 59
On Education and Academic Freedom 65
On Friends, Specific Scientists, and Others 73
On Germans and Germany 105
On Humankind 113
On Jews, Israel, Judaism, and Zionism 123
On Life 145
On Music 151
On Pacifism 159
On Peace, War, the Bomb. and the Military 169
On Politics, Patriotism, and Government 187
On Religion, God, and Philosophy 199
On Science and Scientists, Mathematics, and
Technology 223
On Miscellaneous Subjects 265
Abortion, Achievement, Aging, Ambition, Animals/Pets,
Art and Science, Astrology, Authority, Birth Control,
Birthdays, Blacks/ Racism/Slavery, Books, Causality,
Clarity, Clothes, Competition, Comprehensibility,
Conformity, Conscience, Creativity, Criminals, Curiosity,
Death Penalty, The English and the English Language,
Epistemology, Flying Saucers, Force, Games, Good Acts,
Home, Homosexuality, Individuals/Individuality,
Intelligence, Intuition, Italy and the Italians, Japan and
the Japanese, Lies, Love, Marriage, Materialism,
Miracles, Morality, The Mysterious, Mysticism, Pipe
Smoking, Posterity, Prejudice, The Press, Prohibition,
Psychoanalysis, Rickshaw Pullers, Sailing, Sculpture,
Sex Education, Success, Superstition, Thinking, Tolerance,
Truth, Vegetarianism, Violence, Wealth, Wisdom,
Women, Work, Youth
Attributed to Einstein 311
Others on Einstein 323
Answers to the Most Common Nonscientific
Questions about Einstein 349
Appendix 367
A Brief Peek into the FBI's Einstein File
The Famous Letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
BIBLIOGRAPHY 381
INDEX OF KEY WORDS 387
SUBJECT INDEX 393

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