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Herbert Dingle was an English physicist and natural philosopher, who served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953. He is best known for his opposition to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this provoked. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. August 1890 – 4. September 1978
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Famous Herbert Dingle Quotes

“It is as though a star throws the whole secret history of its being into its spectrum, and we have only to learn how to read it aright in order to solve the most abstruse problems of the physical Universe.”

Herbert Dingle

Introduction, page xxv
Modern Astrophysics, London, 1924

“A science in its infancy is the least satisfactory, and, at the same time, the most profitable theme for a general description.”

Herbert Dingle

Preface, page v
Modern Astrophysics, London, 1924

“What parts of the interior or the atmosphere give rise to the various phenomena, or indeed, if these regions have any parts at all, are questions which we ask of the stars in vain.”

Herbert Dingle

Source: Modern Astrophysics, London, 1924, Chapter XIV, page 182

“A great idea invariably creates as many problems as it solves: that is a sign of its greatness.”

Herbert Dingle

page 63 https://books.google.com/books?id=hwpKAAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA63 <br class="br">Relativity for All, London, 1922

“The aim of the scientist is to express, in as simple a statement as possible, the principles underlying the order and arrangement of phenomena.”

Herbert Dingle

page 39 https://books.google.com/books?id=hwpKAAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA39 <br class="br">Relativity for All, London, 1922

“It is the event that is the immediate entity of perception; Nature is the sum-total of events, and every instrument of thought that our minds employ can be traced back to its ultimate origin in events.”

Herbert Dingle

pages 12–13 https://books.google.com/books?id=hwpKAAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA12 <br class="br">Relativity for All, London, 1922

“Between the Charybdis of inaccuracy and the Scylla of abstruseness, the course is narrow and the sea is rough.”

Herbert Dingle

Preface, page vi https://books.google.com/books?id=hwpKAAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PR6 <br class="br">Relativity for All, London, 1922

“The numerical side of the theory of relativity is derived from the failure of all attempts to detect the relative motion of matter and ether.”

Herbert Dingle

page 23 https://books.google.com/books?id=hwpKAAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA23 <br class="br">Relativity for All, London, 1922

“Matter, space, and time ... according to the relativist, are types of relations between events.”

Herbert Dingle

page 12 https://books.google.com/books?id=hwpKAAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA12 <br class="br">Relativity for All, London, 1922

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