Hermann Minkowski

"It would be very unsatisfactory if the new way of looking at the time-concept, which permits a Lorentz transformation, were to be confined to a single part of Physics."

"The whole world appears resolved into such world-lines. And I should like to say beforehand that, according to my opinion, it would be possible for the physical laws to find their fullest expression a…"

"By laying down the relativity postulate from the outset, sufficient means have been created for deducing henceforth the complete series of Laws of Mechanics from the principle of conservation of energ…"

"The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth, space by itself, and time b…"

"The assumption of the contraction of the electron in Lorentz's theory must be introduced at an earlier stage than Lorentz has actually done."

"H. A. Lorentz has found out the Relativity theorem and has created the Relativity postulate as a hypothesis that electrons and matter suffer contractions in consequence of their motion according to a …"

"Oh, that Einstein, always cutting lectures... I really would not believe him capable of it."

"The word postulate of relativity... appears to me very stale... I should rather like to give this statement the name Postulate of the absolute world ."