Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words (33 page)

Einstein smoking a pipe on the porch of his home in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1938. He was a very ardent pipe smoker and treasured the ritual of selecting different tobaccos and preparing them to be smoked.

Einstein with his friends poet Itzik Feffer and actor Solomon Mikhoels, in 1943.

Einstein in his Princeton study on the day that he received his honorary degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in 1949.

Einstein receiving the honorary degree from Israel S. Wechsler while at his Princeton home in 1949.

A portrait of Einstein at the Yeshiva University inauguration dinner for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, at Princeton Inn on March 15, 1953.

Acknowledgments

ARTICLE

2. From
Portraits and Self-Portraits
by George Schreiber; Houghton, Mifflin Co., Boston, 1936.

3. From
I
Believe,
edited by Clifton Fadiman; copyright by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, 1939.

4. From a message on Founder’s Day of the Young Men’s Christian Association, October 11, 1937.

5. From the Time Capsule statement at the New York World’s Fair, dated August 10, 1938.

6. From
Freedom, Its Meaning,
edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen; Harcourt Brace and Co., New York, 1940. (Translation prepared by James Gutmann, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University.)

7. From an address at the commencement exercises of Swarthmore College, 1938.

8. I. From an address at Princeton Theological Seminary before the Northeastern Regional Conference of the American Association of Theological Schools, May 19, 1939.

     II. From
Science, Philosophy and Religion,
a Symposium; published by the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, Inc., New York, 1941.

9. From an address at the Seventy-second Convocation of the University of the State of New York in Chancellors Hall of the State Education Building at Albany, New York, in celebration of the Tercentenary of Higher Education in America, October 15, 1936. (Translation prepared by Lina Arronet.)

10. From
The American People’s Encyclopedia,
copyright by the Spencer Press, Inc., Chicago, 1949.

11. From
Science Illustrated;
New York, April 1946.

12. Originally published in the
London Times,
November 28, 1919.

13. From
The Journal of the Franklin Institute,
Vol. 221, No. 3; March, 1936.

14. From
Science;
Washington, D. C, May 24, 1940.

15. A broadcast recording for the Science Conference; London, September 28, 1941, and published in
Advancement of Science; London,
Vol. 2, no. 5.

16. From
Relativity—A Richer Truth
by Philipp Frank; published by the Beacon Press, Boston, 1950.

17. From
Technion Journal;
New York, 1946.

18. From
Monthly Review;
New York, May, 1949.

19. From
Pageant;
New York, January, 1946.

20. From
Science;
Washington, D. C, Winter issue, 1935-36. (Translation prepared by Heinz and Ruth Norden.)

21. From a broadcast over ABC to the Rally of Students for Federal World Government; Chicago, May 24, 1946.

22. From
One World or None,
edited by Katherine Way and Dexter Masters; Whittlesey House, New York, 1946.

23. From the address delivered at Carnegie Hall, New York, upon receiving the One World Award, April 27, 1948.

24. From a speech delivered in Albert Hall, London, October, 1933.

25. From the message to the Peace Congress of Intellectuals in Wroclav. (This message was never delivered, but was released to the press on August 29, 1948.)

26. From
United Nations World;
New York, October, 1947.

27. From Moscow
New Times,
November 26, 1947; and from
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;
Chicago, February, 1948.

28. From a statement to the National Wartime Conference, 1944.

29. From
The Nation;
New York, October 3, 1934.

30. Written in 1936 for a gathering of university teachers which never took place.

31. From
Atlantic Monthly;
Boston, November, 1945 and November, 1947. As told to Raymond Swing.

32. From an address at the Fifth Nobel Anniversary Dinner at the Hotel Astor, New York, December 10, 1945.

33. From an address at the second annual dinner given by the Foreign Press Association to the General Assembly and Security Council of the United Nations, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, November 11, 1947.

34. From an address delivered at the Conference of the Progressive Education Association, November 23, 1934.

35. From
Policy;
Chicago, November 27, 1934.

36. From
The American Scholar;
New York, Summer, 1947.

37. From an address to the students of the California Institute of Technology, January 22, 1933.

38. From
The Manchester Guardian;
Manchester, England, Christmas, 1942.

39. Preface to
Johannes Kepler's Letters
edited by Mrs. David Baumgardt.

40. Statement on the occasion of the Curie Memorial Celebration at the Roerich Museum, New York, November 23, 1935.

41. Statement read at the Memorial Services for Max Planck, April, 1948.

42. From
La Pensee;
Paris, February-March, 1947.

43. From
The Scientific Monthly;
Washington, D. C, Vol. LIV, February, 1942.

44. From
Almanak van het Leidsche Studentencorps
published by S. C. Doesburg Verlag, Leiden, Holland; 1934.

45. Statement on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 75th birthday, 1944.

46. Statement read at the Nobel Foundation Dinner, December 10, 1946.

47. From
Collier's;
New York, November 26, 1938.

48. From an address over the Columbia Broadcasting System for the United Jewish Appeal, March 22, 1939.

49. Written in 1934.

50. Unpublished preface to a Black Book. Written in 1945.

51. From a broadcast for the United Jewish Appeal, April 11, 1943.

52. From an address delivered at the “Third Seder” celebration of the National Labor Committee for Palestine, at the Commodore Hotel, New York, April 17, 1938, and published in
New Palestine;
Washington, D. C, April 29, 1938.

53. From
Bulletin of the Society of Polish Jews;
New York, 1944.

54. From a statement read at the unveiling of the Memorial for the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw, April 19, 1948.

55. From an address to the Jewish Academy of Sciences and Arts; March 22, 1936.

56. From a statement read at the Maimonides Jubilee Celebration, New York, April, 1935. (Translation prepared by Heinz and Ruth Norden.)

57. From
Opinion;
New York, March, 1949.

58. Statement to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, on March 15,1949.

59. From a letter to the Committee on Unity for Palestine, New York, 1945.

60. From a broadcast for the United Jewish Appeal, over the National Broadcasting Company, November 27, 1949.

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The Einstein Estate has requested that we revise the 1950 edition by replacing Chapter 12 with a complete translation. Chapter 12 in the 1950 edition entitled “Time, Space and Gravitation” (1948) is not complete. The complete translation as it appears in this reprint edition was originally published in the London Times (November 28, 1919).

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