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In 1923 a new edition of Lucretius’s poem, De rerum natura, was published in Germany. A foreword by Einstein was included in the second volume, which contains a German translation of the poem (Lucretius 1923–24). In it Einstein wrote: “For anyone who is not completely submerged in the spirit of our age, who feels instead like a spectator as the world goes past him, especially, from time to time, vis-à-vis the intellectual attitudes of his contemporaries — on him will Lucretius’s poem work its magic” (Lucretius 1923–24, 2, p. VIa).1
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Kuznetsov, B.G. (1987). Einstein and Epicurus. In: Fawcett, C.R., Cohen, R.S. (eds) Reason and Being. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4590-6_4
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