"Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality."

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Source : Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, Hermann Weyl, Arnold Sommerfeld (1952). “The Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Theory of Relativity”, p.75, Courier Corporation

Hermann Minkowski

#Independent Quotes #Reality Quotes #Two Quotes

“I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.”
“And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.”
“Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.”
“Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.”
“A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got.”
“Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.”
“The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.”
“Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.”

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