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Lecture by Douglas Hofstadter: Albert Einstein on Light; Light on Albert Einstein
Uppsala universitet
Douglas Hofstadter lectures at Uppsala University on how analogy and daring thinking drove Einstein's discovery of light quanta. He argues deep insight in physics comes from imaginative leaps rather than rigid logic.
Cited in discussions of analogy-making in science, and revisited by fans of Hofstadter.
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