"Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory — it almost hates you yourself ! How am I to provide for my students ? What am I to answer to the philosophers ?"
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about the theory of general relativity, in a letter dated November 24, 1919, to Albert Einstein.
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Paul Ehrenfest
1880 – 1933
österreichischer Physiker
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