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Einstein, A., Mein Weltbild, in Seelig, C. (ed.), Amsterdam, Querido Verlag, 1934. Google
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page numbers from Einstein, A., Ideas and opinions, Bargmann, S. (translator) New York, Wings Books, 1954
226 ;;Quote: the general laws of theoretical physics are valid for any natural phenomenon whatsoever, including life
226+;;Quote: the task of the physicist is to find the universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built by pure deduction
226+;;Quote: only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach the elementary laws of nature
226 ;;Quote: at any given moment, out of all conceivable constructions, a single system of theoretical physics has always proved itself decidedly superior; a pre-established harmony
237 ;;Quote: four-dimensional space-time, the effect of motion on bodies and clocks, and the equivalence of energy and inert mass, follow from the interpretation of coordinates and time as products of measurement
247 ;;Quote: general theory of relativity from the equality of inertial and gravitational mass; applied to coordinate systems accelerated relative to each other
247+;;Quote: in the general theory of relativity the space-time metric only applies to small regions of a gravitational field
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