--- title: "4 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Quotes" description: "Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch theoretical physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for their discovery and theoretic..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71b/hendrik-antoon-lorentz-68917_quote_said-that-in-non-euclidean-geometry-spac_1479878.jpg" --- # Hendrik Antoon Lorentz **4** quotes in **7** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch theoretical physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for their discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He derived the Lorentz transformation of the special theory of relativity, as well as the Lorentz force, which ## Quotes by Hendrik Antoon Lorentz > [“said that in non-Euclidean geometry space has a curvature, but this way of stating the matter is misleading, since it seems to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-antoon-lorentz/said-that-in-non-euclidean-geometry-space-has-a-curvature-but-this/) Hendrik Antoon Lorentz [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71b/hendrik-antoon-lorentz-68917_quote_said-that-in-non-euclidean-geometry-spac_1479878.jpg) > [“he made it his aim so to arrange the theory that, no matter how the choice was made, the phenomena of gravitation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-antoon-lorentz/he-made-it-his-aim-so-to-arrange-the-theory-that-no-matter-how-the/) Hendrik Antoon Lorentz [Gravitation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gravitation/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a2/hendrik-antoon-lorentz-68917_quote_he-made-it-his-aim-so-to-arrange-the-the_2242093.jpg) > [“it is of importance to note that when we exclude certain possibilities that would give rise to still greater intricacy, the form…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-antoon-lorentz/it-is-of-importance-to-note-that-when-we-exclude-certain/) Hendrik Antoon Lorentz [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79b/hendrik-antoon-lorentz-68917_einstein_it-is-of-importance-to-note-that-when-we_2657765.jpg) > [“Till now it was believed that time and space existed by themselves, even if there was nothing else--no sun, no earth, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hendrik-antoon-lorentz/till-now-it-was-believed-that-time-and-space-existed-by-themselves/) Hendrik Antoon Lorentz [Celestial bodies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/celestial-bodies/) 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