On the Method of Theoretical Physics. Einstein, A. Philosophy of Science, 1(2):163–169, April, 1934.
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author = "Albert Einstein",
title = "On the Method of Theoretical Physics",
journal = j-PHILOS-SCI,
volume = "1",
number = "2",
pages = "163--169",
month = apr,
year = "1934",
CODEN = "PHSCA6",
ISSN = "0031-8248 (print), 1539-767X (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0031-8248",
bibdate = "Sat Mar 1 08:04:22 MST 2014",
bibsource = "http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=philscie;
http://www.jstor.org/stable/i209569;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/einstein.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/philossci1930.bib",
URL = "http://www.jstor.org/stable/184387",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "Philosophy of Science",
journal-URL = "http://www.jstor.org/journals/00318248.html",
remark = "This paper is based on Einstein's Herbert Spencer
Lecture at Oxford University (10 June 1933). It
contains the text ``It can scarcely be denied that the
supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible
basic elements as simple and as few as possible without
having to surrender the adequate representation of a
single datum of experience.''. That text is sometimes
rephrased as ``Everything should be made as simple as
possible, but not simpler'' and attributed to
Einstein.",
}
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