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It Is My Conviction That Pure Mathematical Construction Enables Us To Discover The Concepts And The Laws Connecting Them, Which Gives Us The Key To The Understanding Of Nature ... In A Certain Sense, Therefore, I Hold It True That Pure Thought Can Grasp Reality, As The Ancients Dreamed.

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It Is My Conviction

Albert Einstein

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It Is My Conviction That Pure Mathematical Construction Enables Us To Discover The Concepts And The Laws Connecting Them, Which Gives Us The Key To The Understanding Of Nature ... In A Certain Sense, Therefore, I Hold It True That Pure Thought Can Grasp Reality, As The Ancients Dreamed.

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