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Speeches of Albert Einstein

By baileyscott
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    Life of Einstein

  • Speech to Univerisity of Leiden: On the irrelevance of the luminiferous aether hypothesis to physical measurements.

  • Japan Trip

    Einstein comments about his trip- "May they not forget to keep pure the great heritage that puts them ahead of the West: the artistic configuration of life, the simplicity and modesty of personal needs, and the purity and serenity of the Japanese soul."

  • Kyoto Address

    Einstein reflects back upon the events that occured as he construced the Theory of Relativity.

  • Nobel Peace Address to the Nordic Assembly of Naturalists at Gothenburg

    Fundamental ideas and problems of the theory of relativity.

  • Interview with Rabindranath Tagore

    "I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it."

  • Speech to the New History Society

    "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms."

  • Speech to students at the California Institute of Technology

    "Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it."

  • Einstein explaining why he joined the American Federation of Teachers

    "I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field."

  • Speech made in honor of Thomas Mann

    "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character..."

  • On the occasion of Gandhi's 70th birthday

    "Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth."

  • "The Common Language of Science", a broadcast for Science

    "Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age."

  • Address to the symposium "The Social Task of the Scientist in the Atomic Era" at the Institute for Advanced Study

    "This is really the cornerstone of our situation. Now, I believe what we should try to bring about is the general conviction that the first thing you have to abolish is war at all costs, and every other point of view must be of secondary importance."

  • U.N. radio interview

    "Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever."

  • The Need for Ethical Culture" celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Ethical Culture Society

    "Without "ethical culture," there is no salvation for humanity."

  • address to the Chicago Decalogue Society

    "In long intervals I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity."