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Albert Einstein

How wretchedfully inadequate is the theoretical physicist as he stands before Nature — and before his students.

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Albert Einstein

(1879-1955) physicist, author of theory of relativity. "Albert Einstein reshaped our cosmos by supplanting long-treasured concepts of physics with shockingly counterintuitive ideas about the nature of space and time. It […] www.english-slang.com

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The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must […] www.english-slang.com

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As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is. www.english-slang.com

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I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

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