“there are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay down such strongly determined laws that within these laws only rationally determined constants occur (not constants, therefore, whose numerical value could be changed without destroying the theory).”
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A source trail connects this quotation to Albert Einstein and Autobiographical Notes, but the exact English wording has not been confirmed in a primary text. The attribution is therefore probable rather than definitive.
Likely origin: Autobiographical Notes
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This page records the wording "there are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted…," which centers on arbitrary, constants, nature. A concrete trail points toward Einstein, but the exact English form remains unconfirmed; the page therefore labels it as attributed to him while preserving its science and motivation context.
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