| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 18602 |
| QUOTATION: | There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Albert Einstein (1879–1955), U.S. physicist, mathematician, philosopher of science, pacifist. Trans. by K. Popper. Ueber die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitaetstheorie, ch.22 (1917).
Alluding both to Newton’s theory of gravitation vis a vis Einstein’s, and Einstein’s vis a vis future improvements. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Einstein Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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