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Quotation from Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein
“No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory, than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.”
Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Part II, Section XXII, trans. Robert W. Lawson
On the relation of the special theory, and of classical theories generally, to the more general theories that succeed them.
Citation: "No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory, than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case." — Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Part II, Section XXII, trans. Robert W. Lawson. (id einstein-relativity-q5)
Portrait: Einstein 1921 by F Schmutzer - restoration, Ferdinand Schmutzer, Public domain.
