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Time figures as the mortar which binds the bricks of matter together.

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Although of primary importance in all branches of physics and an indispensable conceptual tool of scientific thought, the notion of mass seems to elude all attempts at a fully comprehensive elucidation and a logical as well as scientifically unobjectionable definition.

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Time in general is to duration as place is to expansion.

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Space is as different from position as time is different from motion.

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Like all science, the science of space must still be classed as unfinished business.

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Time leaves its mark, its wrinkles and its grey hairs, on the stars, so that we can guess their ages tolerable well, and the evidence is all in favor of stellar lives, not of thousands of millions, but of millions of millions, of years.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Max Jammer

Max Jammer

Born: April 13, 1915
Died: December 18, 2010 (aged 95)
Bio: Max Jammer, was an Israeli physicist and philosopher of physics. He was born in Berlin, Germany.
Known for:
  1. Concepts of Simultaneity (2006)

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