“Recognition of the subjectivity of the qualities of sense is found in Galilei (and also in Descartes and Hobbes) in a form closely related to the principle underlying the constructive mathematical method of our modern physics which repudiates" qualities."”

—  Hermann Weyl

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Space—Time—Matter (1952)

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German mathematician 1885–1955

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