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Ideas and Opinions

by Albert Einstein · 1954

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Here's the definitive collection of Einstein's popular writings, gathered under his supervision. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, religion & science, to human rights, economics & government.

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