“All we know at present of locomotion is the locomotion of one piece of matter with reference to other pieces. That can be freely granted, and the whole edifice of physics is consistent with the idea that locomotion through the ether is impossible to measure. But the impossibility has never been proved, and some day an exceptional phenomenon may be found.”

— Oliver Lodge

My Philosophy, p. 125 https://books.google.com/books?id=pC28TnExGEEC&pg=PA115
My Philosophy (1933)

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