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Every modern century has its paragons, its culture-heroes, who fill the place once taken by saints and messiahs. For the first half of the twentieth century, outside the totalitarian states, the most celebrated paragons have been Gandhi, Schweitzer, and Einstein; and of these the most influential as a thinker was clearly Albert Einstein.
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“Considerations Concerning the Fundaments of Theoretical Physics,” by Albert Einstein, Science, XCI (May 24, 1940), 487–92. Reprinted by permission of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Estate of Albert Einstein.
Physics and Philosophy, by Werner Heisenberg (Harper & Row, New York, 1958), pp. 194–206. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, and George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. Copyright 1958 by Werner Heisenberg.
“Demonstration of the Impossibility of Metaphysics,” by A. J. Ayer, Mind, XLIII (July 1934), 335–45. Reprinted by permission of Mind and Professor A. J. Ayer.
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Einstein, A., Heisenberg, W., Ayer, A.J. (1968). Physics and Philosophy. In: Wagar, W.W. (eds) Science, Faith, and Man. The Documentary History of Western Civilization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00381-5_2
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