"In the whole history of science, from Greek philosophy to modern physics, there have been constant attempts to reduce the apparent complexity of natural phenomena to some simple fundamental ideas and relations."  Albert Einstein and Leopold Infield, The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta, p. 56, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1938.

"The great achievements of mechanics in all its branches, its striking success in the development of astronomy, the application of its ideas to problems apparently different and non-mechanical in character, all these things contributed to the belief that it is possible to describe all natural phenomena in terms of simple forces between unalterable objects."  Albert Einstein and Leopold Infield, The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta, p. 56, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1938.

The following offsite URL contains several links to Einstein writings.

    http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/albert_einstein/

    http://www.stcloud.msus.edu/~lesikar/einstein/freethink.html

This site opened:  December 22, 1999.  Last Update: December 22, 1999