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Michele Besso died in Geneva on 15 March 1955. A few days later, Besso’s son and sister received from Princeton a letter of condolence from Albert Einstein, which contained the following words: “He has preceded me by a brief time in taking leave of this strange world. But that means nothing. For us, who believe in physics, the division between past, present, and future, has the sole value of being a stubborn illusion”.1
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Bellone, E. (1990). Science and History of Science. In: Levere, T.H., Shea, W.R. (eds) Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 120. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1878-8_13
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