Einstein's comments on Sir A. S. Eddington

Eddington made many ingenious suggestions, but I have not followed them all up. I find that he was as a rule curiously uncritical towards his own ideas. He had little feeling for the need for a theoretical construction to be logically very simple if it is to have any prospect of being true.

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¹Ilse Rosenthal-Scheider, Reality and Scientific Truth, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1949, p. 40.