Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 1: The Impulse to Power
“Relativity is a simple concept. It asserts that the fundamental laws of physics are the same whatever your state of motion.”
Source: Book Einstein: His Life and Universe
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Context: Space and time are commonly regarded as the forms of existence of the real world, matter as its substance. A definite portion of matter occupies a definite part of space at a definite moment of time. It is in the composite idea of motion that these three fundamental conceptions enter into intimate relationship.
Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866) German mathematician
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Mordehai Milgrom (1946) Israeli physicist
as hinted perhaps by the cosmological connotations of a<sub>0</sub> <br class="br"> MOND Theory, p. 5, Mordehai Milgrom, 30 Apr 2014, updated 31 Aug 2014 http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7661,
“Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.”
Aaron Burr (1756–1836) American Vice President and politician
Reported in Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948).
John S. Bell (1928–1990) Northern Irish physicist
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Kurt Lewin (1890–1947) German-American psychologist
Source: 1930s, The conflict between Aristotelian and Galileian modes of thought in contemporary psychology, 1931, p. 147.
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