“I was sitting in the patent office in Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely, he won’t feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.”From a lecture in Kyoto, Japan, Dec. 14, 1922 “[Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known… but he really did not understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood the general theory of relativity, he would have gone to bed the way I did.”Einstein speaking about renowned physicist Max Planck “Quantum mechanics is…
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