title: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives
author: Albert Einstein
description: "[Einstein] is revealed not only as a humane philosopher but as a natural aphorist, often with the graces of humor and humility." (<i>Wall Street Journal</i>)<br /><br />"[This book] presents itself in such a modest and loving tone that it is fitting for the memory of the man it lets us hear. It is a fresh and delicious little anthology of citations from the body of Einstein's letters, journal entries and other written comment. . . . These varied, penetrating, warm and open remarks to queens and schoolchildren, friends and antagonists, philosophers and sophomores have been sensitively chosen by two old friends of Einstein's and well translated. The German originals are included." (<i>Scientific American</i>)<br /><br />"A thoroughly delightful book." (<i>Choice</i>)<br /><br />"[This book] compiled by two of his closest colleagues in later life, Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann, aims to show what kind of a person Einstein was. By a series of quotations from letters, jottings and unpublished documents, for example, Dukas and Hoffmann demonstrate as clearly as anybody could expect that Einstein was a courteous, kindly, witty, fearless and lonely man. . . . It is a bedside book." (<i>Washington Post</i>)
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  THE WORLD AS I SEE IT
  Albert Einstein
       PREFACE TO ORIGINAL EDITION
       Only individuals have a sense of responsibility. --Nietzsche
  This book does not represent a complete collection of the articles, addresses,
  and pronouncements of Albert Einstein; it is a selection made with a definite
  object-- namely, to give a picture of a man. To-day this man is being drawn,
  contrary to his own intention, into the whirlpool of political passions and
  contemporary history. As a result, Einstein is experiencing the fate that so
  many of the great men of history experienced: his character and opinions are
  being exhibited to the world in an utterly distorted form.
  To forestall this fate is the real object of this book. It meets a wish that has
  constantly been expressed both by Einstein's friends and by the wider public.
  It contains work belonging to the most various dates-- the article on "The
  International of Science" dates from the year 1922, the address on "The
  Principles of Scientific Researc