The Evolution of Physics
Einstein co-wrote a history of his own field with a refugee physicist who needed the money, and it explains his objection to quantum theory.
Einstein wrote this history of physics with Leopold Infeld, a Polish refugee who needed the income, and the collaboration produced a rare thing: a working physicist explaining his own field for general readers. It traces mechanics through field theory to relativity and quanta, and it is unusually revealing about Einstein’s conviction that the universe must obey invariable laws, the belief underlying his resistance to quantum theory.
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Walter Isaacson
Deeply woven into this is his idea that there must be laws of the universe that are invariable
Interview · December 2010
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