Einstein: His Life and Universe

. Einstein to Herbert S. Goldstein, Apr. 25, 1929, AEA 33-272; “Einstein Believes in Spinoza’s God,”

New York Times

, Apr. 25, 1929; Gerald Holton, “Einstein’s Third Paradise,”

Daedalus

(fall 2002): 26–34. Goldstein was the rabbi of the Institutional Synagogue in Harlem and the longtime president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.

10

. Rabbi Jacob Katz of the Montefiore Congregation, quoted in

Time

, May 13, 1929.

11

. Calaprice, 214; Einstein to Hubertus zu Lowenstein, ca. 1941, in Lowenstein’s book,

Towards the Further Shore

(London: Victor Gollancz, 1968), 156.

12

. Einstein to Joseph Lewis, Apr. 18, 1953, AEA 60-279.

13

. Einstein to unknown recipient, Aug. 7, 1941, AEA 54-927.

14

. Guy Raner Jr. to Einstein, June 10, 1948, AEA 57-287; Einstein to Guy Raner

Jr., July 2, 1945, AEA 57-288; Einstein to Guy Raner Jr., Sept. 28, 1949, AEA 57-289.

15

. Einstein, “Religion and Science,”

New York Times

, Nov. 9, 1930, reprinted in Einstein 1954, 36–40. See also Powell.

16

. Einstein, speech to the Symposium on Science, Philosophy and Religion, Sept. 10, 1941, reprinted in Einstein 1954, 41; “Sees No Personal God,” Associated Press, Sept. 11, 1941. A yellowed clipping of this story was given to me by Orville Wright, who was a young naval officer at the time and had kept it for sixty years; it had been passed around his ship and had notations from various sailors saying such things as, “Tell me, what do you think of this?”

17

. “In the mind there is no absolute or free will, but the mind is determined by this or that volition, by a cause, which is also determined by another cause, and this again by another, and so on

ad infinitum.

” Baruch Spinoza,

Ethics

, part 2, proposition 48.

18

. Einstein, statement to the Spinoza Society of America, Sept. 22, 1932.

19

. Sometimes translated as “A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.” I cannot find this quote in Schopenhauer’s writings. The sentiment, nevertheless, comports with Schopenhauer’s philosophy. He said, for example, “A man’s life, in all its events great and small, is as necessarily predetermined as are the movements of a clock.” Schopenhauer,“On Ethics,” in

Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

(New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 2:227.

20

. Einstein, “The World As I See It,” in Einstein 1949a and Einstein 1954.

21

. Viereck, 375.

22

. Max Born to Einstein, Oct. 10, 1944, in Born 2005, 150.

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