Einstein was one of those very few scientists who could see the physical picture before the math, as he did for relativity. Fermi and Feynman were similar. The ability to visualize the physical picture before formalization is what separates good scientists from great ones.
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"Men like Einstein and Bohr grope their way in the dark toward their conceptions of general relativity or atomic structure by another type of experience and imagination than those of the mathematician." ~ Hermann Weyl
9:52 AM - 13 Sep 2019
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