14 (1950), AEA 1-163; Fine, 98.
46
. Einstein, “Physics and Reality,”
(Mar. 1936), in Einstein 1954, 292. Gerald Holton says that this is more properly translated: “The eternally incomprehensible thing about the world is its comprehensibility”; see Holton, “What Precisely Is Thinking?,” in French, 161.
47
. Einstein to Maurice Solovine, Mar. 30, 1952, in Solovine, 131 (not in AEA).
48
. Einstein to Maurice Solovine, Jan. 1, 1951, in Solovine, 119.
49
. Einstein to Max Born, Sept. 7, 1944, in Born 2005, 146, and AEA 8-207.
50
. Born 2005, 69. He put Einstein in the category of “conservative individuals who were unable to free their minds from the prevailing philosophical prejudices.”
51
. Einstein to Maurice Solovine, Apr. 10, 1938, in Solovine, 85.
52
. Einstein and Infeld, 296.
53
. Ibid., 241.
54
. Born 2005, 118, 122.
55
. Brian 1996, 289.
56
. Hoffmann 1972, 231.
57
. Regis, 35.
58
. Leopold Infeld,
(New York: Chelsea, 1980), 309.
59
. Brian 1996, 303.
60
. Infeld, introduction to the 1960 edition of Einstein and Infeld; Infeld, 112–114.
61
. Pais 1982, 23.
62
. Vladimir Pavlovich Vizgin,
(Basel: Birkhauser, 1994), 218. Matthew 19:6, King James Version: “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
63
. Einstein to Max von Laue, Mar. 23, 1934, AEA 16-101.
64
. From Whitrow, xii: “Einstein agreed that the chance of success was very small but the attempt must be made. He himself had established his name; his position was assured, so he could afford to take the risk of failure. A young man
