It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning—as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Albert Einstein as transcribed by Alice Calaprice, The New Quotable Einstein

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"Quoted in Max Born, Physik im Wandel meiner Zeit, (Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1966)" as per research on http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/einstein_11_sci_description.html.

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