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A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

Book by Albert Einstein · 3 quotes · Mathematics, Science, Thinking

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A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein Quotes

“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?”

“Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.”