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Writing in the last months of the First World War, Einstein summed up his internationalist position with simple passion: "By heritage I am a Jew, by nationality Swiss, by conviction a human being and only a human being with no particular penchant for a state or national entity" (CPAE 8B, Doc. 560). Readings in popular science in his early years had laid the groundwork. As a precocious teenager he devoured Aaron Bernstein's multivolume encyclopedic study of the natural sciences, which besides offering a wealth of insights into the world of physics, provided numerous examples of the critical link between scientific creativity and the political equilibrium among nations that was necessary for it to flourish. An early adulthood filled, as he described it, with "constant wandering" and the sensation of being "everywhere a stranger" (CPAE 9, Doc. 337) most certainly also contributed to an instinctive internationalism, as did his work in physics. Scientific research was, after all, premised on a belief in the transnational character of science, its collaborative aspect, and its dependence on verification by a band of brothers and sisters bound together by the search for truth and not the

Author

Einstein, AlbertHG; Schulmann, Robert

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691120942