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“Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.”

Philosophy Science Physics Relativity Epistemology

Book:Who was Right: Ptolemy or Copernicus?

Source: Who was Right: Ptolemy or Copernicus?

“The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.”

Philosophy Science Epistemology

Book:Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

Source: Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

“There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves.”

Philosophy Science Physics

Book:Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy

Source: Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy

“To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.”

Philosophy Science Epistemology

Author:Felix Alba-Juez

“When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and ... that happens well before subatomic particles touch!”

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Book:Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy

Source: Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy

“It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!”

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Book:Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy

Source: Galloping with Sound - The Grand Cosmic Conspiracy

“Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.”

Philosophy Science Physics Epistemology

Author:Felix Alba-Juez

“Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.”

Philosophy Science Epistemology

Book:E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore

Source: E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore

“After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says: ... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.”

Philosophy Science Epistemology

Book:E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore

Source: E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore

“If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?”

Philosophy Science Epistemology

Book:Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

Source: Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

“Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.”

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Book:Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

Source: Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore

“Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.”

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Book:The Perception of Time... and its Measurement

Source: The Perception of Time... and its Measurement

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Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and FolkloreRelated source material

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E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its FolkloreRelated source material

The Perception of Time... and its MeasurementRelated source material

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