John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) American physicist
John Archibald Wheeler, in "Albert Einstein in Biographical Memoirs Vol. 51, by the National Academy of Sciences
“Of all heroes, Spinoza was Einstein's greatest. No one expressed more strongly than he a belief in the harmony, the beauty, and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature.”
"Albert Einstein" in Biographical Memoirs (1980) Vol. 51, National Academy of Sciences.
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