The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elem…

Albert Einstein
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The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them. ✨ Albert Einstein (2011). Essays in Science, p.11, Open Road Media
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