If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?
Tags: science, philosophy, epistemology

Other Quotes by "Felix Alba-Juez"

Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.
Tags: science, philosophy, epistemology
Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.
Tags: science, philosophy
After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says: ... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.
— Felix Alba-Juez E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore
Tags: science, philosophy, epistemology
Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
— Felix Alba-Juez E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore
Tags: science, philosophy, epistemology
When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and ... that happens well before subatomic particles touch!
Tags: science, physics, philosophy
View More by "Felix Alba-Juez"