"It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist."

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“The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and … there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.”

“The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to be considered as dogma. For this reason, it is proper to submit periodically to a very searching examination, principles that we have come to assume without any more discussion.”

“Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth … They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.”

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"Einstein's theory has the very highest degree of æsthetic merit: every lover of the beautiful must wish it to be true. It gives a vast unified survey of the operations of nature, with a technical simp…"

— Hendrik Lorentz

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— William Gibson

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"My purpose is to set forth a very new science dealing with a very ancient subject. There is, in nature, perhaps nothing older than motion, concerning which the books written by philosophers are neithe…"

— Galileo Galilei

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