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26 May 07 Einstein’s Philosophy of Science

by Philipp Frank
Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Received 29 April 1949)

About ten year ago I spoke with Einstein about the astonishing fact that so ministers of various denominations are strongly interested in the theory of relativity. Einstein said that according to his estimation there are more clergymen interested in relativity than physicists. A little puzzle I asked him how he would explain this strange fact. He answered, a little smiling, “Because clergymen are interested in the general laws of nature and the physicists, very often, are not“…… (the rest please the paper)


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