PHILOSOPHICAL LEANINGS
Einstein said he owed an intellectual debt to the philosopher David Hume in a letter which emerged as recently as 2019. Although Hume’s ethics have recently been called into question for writing ‘racist epithets’, Einstein avidly studied A Treatise of Human Nature, published in 1739, shortly before he discovered the theory of relativity. “It is very possible that without these philosophical studies, I can not say that the solution would have come,” he wrote.