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The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it…
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In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only…
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Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our…
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Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the…
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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of…
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But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'…
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements…
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is…
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My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether...
— Nikola Tesla
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Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through the agency of the aether are moved…
— Peter J. Carroll
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The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of…
— Leon M. Lederman
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We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical form from…
— Henry Moseley
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There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.
— Arthur Eddington
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In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."
— Arthur Eddington
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In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth knowing that…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick,…
— Isaac Newton
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