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On the Method of Theoretical Physics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Albert Einstein
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Extract

If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses, I would give you the following piece of advice: Don't listen to his words, examine his achievements. For to the discoverer in that field, the constructions of his imagination appear so necessary and so natural that he is apt to treat them not as the creations of his thoughts but as given realities.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , April 1934 , pp. 163 - 169
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1934

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∗ The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford, June 10, 1933. Reprinted by permission of the Oxford University Press. New York, Inc.