Carolina QuotesOf all heroes, Spinoza was Einstein's greatest. No one expressed more strongly than he a belief in the harmony, the beauty, and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature.
John Archibald Wheeler Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Albert Einstein" in Biographical Memoirs (1980) Vol. 51, National Academy of Sciences.
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- 1980
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