The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought.

— Albert Einstein, An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field (1945)

Source: http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Einstein_think/index.html

His answer to Jacques Hadamard's survey, printed in Hadamard's 1945 essay.

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