Max Jammer Quotes

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

Max Jammer

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.

Max Jammer

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

Max Jammer

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

Max Jammer

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.

Max Jammer