'The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.'
Published in 1934 between the two World Wars, The World as I See It is an extraordinary series of opinion pieces from one of the most intelligent thinkers of the twentieth century: Albert Einstein.
Endlessly captivating and intensely thoughtful, in The World as I See It Einstein reveals profound meditations on religion, nationalism, politics and, of course, life itself. He discusses his upbringing in Germany, as well as his concerns about the rife anti-Semitism in the country, and what he hopes the League of Nations will do to address it. Comprising of articles, letters, interviews and essays, Einstein covers everything from ethics and science to society and war, cementing himself as the genius he was known to be, but also unveiling his idealistic, witty and humanitarian qualities. An extraordinary work of non-fiction, The World as I See It offers a fascinating insight into the mind of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and, more broadly, provides a contemporary glimpse into some of the biggest historical events of the twentieth century.
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) was a German–Swiss theoretical physicist. He is renowned for developing the theory of relativity, his contributions to quantum theory and for the world's most famous equation: E = mc2. In 1921, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
