"Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines as shortest lines as well as their relations of intersection."

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Source : Hans Reichenbach (1958). “Philosophie Der Raum-Zeit-Lehre”, p.90, Courier Corporation

Hans Reichenbach

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“You've got to care about the music...You'd better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money. And you'd sure better not be doing it because it's a way to make a living, 'cause that ain't always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.”
“I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.”
“In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.”
“Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?”
“We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.”
“The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.”
“...All the wonders of our universe can in effect be captured by simple rules, yet ... there can be no way to know all the consequences of these rules, except in effect just to watch and see how they unfold.”
“If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created.”

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