On the Method of Theoretical Physics

1934/04/01 by Albert Einstein · 9 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Environmental Science · #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Science and Climate Studies

paper · doi:10.1086/286316

Abstract

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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