"If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses... 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."
January 1, 1970
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