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6.
A
non-physicist friend to whom I told this story immediately interpreted Einstein’s
reaction in terms of the collective guilt of physicisis in connection with
nuclear weapons. I prefer to interpret it at a deeper level, in connection with
the discoveries of ever larger symmetries in Nature’s design.