Footnote:

Yehuda Elkana, "The Myth of Symplicity", in Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana (eds.), Albert Einstein. Historical and Cultural Perspectives, Princeton, Princeton University Press (1982), pp. 205-251, on pp. 208.


 

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