William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879) English mathematician and philosopher
"Energy and Force" (Mar 28, 1873)
“attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
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“It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.”
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
Source: The Museum of Extraordinary Things
“This is an attempt to create a space that will witness mystical dimensions”
Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
Isha Insights Magazine, Spring Edition 2009
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Context: This is an attempt to create a space that will witness mystical dimensions that have never been witnessed in this part of the world. -Sadhguru (on Isha Institute of Inner Sciences, McMinnville, TN USA)
Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
Source: The Adventures of Huck Finn
“I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all.”
Isaac Newton book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687)
Context: I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.
“Finding is losing something else.
I think about, perhaps even mourn,
what I lost to find this”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
Source: Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
Herbert Dingle (1890–1978) British astronomer
page 23 https://books.google.com/books?id=hwpKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA23 <br class="br">Relativity for All, London, 1922
Gerald James Whitrow (1912–2000) British mathematician
The Structure of the Universe: An Introduction to Cosmology (1949)
Context: Galileo had raised the concepts of space and time to the status of fundamental categories by directing attention to the mathematical description of motion. The midiaevel qualitative method had made these concepts relatively unimportant, but in the new mathematical philosophy the external world became a world of bodies moving in space and time. In the Timaeus Plato had expounded a theory that outside the universe, which he regarded as bounded and spherical, there was an infinite empty space. The ideas of Plato were much discussed in the middle of the seventeenth century by the Cambridge Platonists, and Newton's views were greatly influenced thereby. He regarded space as the 'sensorium of God' and hence endowed it with objective existence, although he confessed that it could not be observed. Similarly, he believed that time had an objective existence independent of the particular processes which can be used for measuring it.<!--p.46
“It is not too difficult to find people in that country [Ireland] crying over what they have lost.”
Mark Tully (1935) British journalist
It's Sir Mark Tully in UK honors list, 2001